[yocto] [PATCH 1/1] meta-sugarbay: Change build instructions in README to use BSP tarball

tom.zanussi at intel.com tom.zanussi at intel.com
Thu May 26 10:42:35 PDT 2011


From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi at intel.com>

Change the build instructions to use BSP tarballs instead of git
clones.  The git clone info remains as a mentioned alternative.

Fixes [YOCTO #1103].

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi at intel.com>
---
 meta-sugarbay/README |   21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta-sugarbay/README b/meta-sugarbay/README
index bcc46c2..7899205 100644
--- a/meta-sugarbay/README
+++ b/meta-sugarbay/README
@@ -17,17 +17,11 @@ III. Booting the images in /binary
 I. Building the meta-sugarbay BSP layer
 =======================================
 
-For each BSP in the 'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple
-branches, one corresponding to each major release starting with
-'laverne' (0.90), in addition to the latest code which tracks the
-current master.
-
 In order to build an image with BSP support for a given release, you
-need to check out the 'meta-intel' branch corresponding to the release
-you're building against e.g. to build for laverne (0.90), check out
-the 'laverne' branch of both poky and 'meta-intel'.
+need to download the corresponding BSP tarball from the 'Board Support
+Package (BSP) Downloads' page of the Yocto Project website.
 
-Having done that, and assuming you cloned the 'meta-intel' repository
+Having done that, and assuming you extracted the BSP tarball contents
 at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can build a sugarbay
 image by adding the location of the meta-sugarbay layer to
 bblayers.conf e.g.:
@@ -47,6 +41,15 @@ At the end of a successful build, you should have a live image that
 you can boot from a USB flash drive (see instructions on how to do
 that below, in the section 'Booting the images from /binary').
 
+As an alternative to downloading the BSP tarball, you can also work
+directly from the meta-intel git repository.  For each BSP in the
+'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple branches, one
+corresponding to each major release starting with 'laverne' (0.90), in
+addition to the latest code which tracks the current master.  Instead
+of extracting a BSP tarball at the top level of your yocto build tree,
+you can equivalently check out the appropriate branch from the
+meta-intel repository at the same location.
+
 
 II. Booting the images in /binary
 =================================
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