[yocto] minimal yocto images not booting on Beagleboard-xM rev B

[Koen Kooi]

Op 6 jul 2011, om 18:42 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven:

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> On 07/06/2011 07:00 AM, G Rajender wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I am new to Yocto project and Beagleboard.
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>> I am using Beagleboard-xM rev B. I got the information about Yocto
>> project by search. Yocto is a good open platform for Embedded developers
>> for target specific architectures.
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>> I have started working on Yocto project to build a LTP (Linux Test
>> Project) Test frame work for Beagleboard-xM rev B. I have downloaded the
>> Yocto release 1.0.1 and Beagleboard-xM BSP from the Yocto website. I
>> have installed the Yocto project poky build tool and demo image in my
>> Host PC (Ubuntu 10.04)as per poky quick start guide.
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>> *Now I am trying to execute the meta-bsp (meta-beagleboard) binaries
>> (built images) on beagleboard-xM rev B as per README. Hardware file. But
>> the beagleboard-xM revision B is not booting with theses BSP images.*
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> Hi Rajender,
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> Welcome to the Yocto Project.
> 
> We just recently completed a major overhaul to the meta-yocto
> beagleboard BSP, bringing it closer in line with the
> meta-texasinstruments BSP. I have tested on a C4 and an xM Rev A. I have
> reports of it working on rev B and not working on rev C, which we are
> looking into.
> 
> For the best Yocto beagleboard support, I suggest building from the git
> repository until the 1.1 release later this year.

Well, for the best beagleboard support you'd still need the offcial beagleboard layer (http://git.angstrom-distribution.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/meta-texasinstruments/) and use angstrom as distro