[yocto] yocto on Acer Aspire One NAV50

[Jim Abernathy]

On 01/10/2012 10:50 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 12-01-10 10:47 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
>> I created a core-image-sato using the meta-n450 BSP hoping I could work
>> with it on the Acer Aspire One 532h-2588. However, that netbook uses the
>> Atheros AR5B95 wireless NIC and the Atheros AR8132 wired NIC, which are
>> not recognized. Is there anything already in Yocto that could be turned
>> on to support these devices, or am I left with porting the drives?
>> Since Ubuntu 11.10 with it's kernel 3.0.0 supports these devices and
>> runs on the netbook, I'm guessing it's a matter of configuring the
>> kernel to include these modules.
>> Does this sound right??
>
> That should be all that is required. If the drivers you need are
> indeed in 3.0 (I didn't go check explicitly), then you can create
> a bbappend for the BSP in a layer, and add a configuration fragment
> that enables the drivers you need (as modules or builtin, your
> choice).
>
> Examples of config fragments are in the BSP/kernel guides found on
> the yocto project pages.
>
If I'm only making changes to the .config parameters, do I still need to 
create
a local bare clone of the yocto kernel and also git the poky-extras 
repository as mentioned
in the Developers Manual appendix B?

Jim A


> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>> Jim A
>>
>>
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