[yocto] Does Edison work with Beagleboard & linux-yocto-3.0 kernel?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-01-11 09:41 AM, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed the example in the "Yocto Project Development Manual" for
> setting up a local kernel repo and it didn't go so well.
>
> A month or two ago I checked out Edison and was able to build all the
> images required for Beagleboard and it booted fine (using command line
> ... not hob.  Tried hob but couldn't get it to work).
>
> So then I checked out linux-yocto-3.0 kernel and setup a local kernel
> git repo and went through the process of setting up poky-extras,
> modifying bblayers.conf etc. to point to my local repo.
>
> Any time I try to build core-image-minimal it looks like it always
> wants to use the 2.6.37 recipe instead of finding my 3.0 repo.  I've
> tried everything I can think of and I must me missing something.
>
> So, I guess my questions are:
>
> 1.  Will linux-yocto-3.0 work with Beagleboard?

It will. I sent patches recently to make that the preferred version
in the master branch. Cherry picking that change would probably
be all you would need.

> 2.  Is the example for setting up for kernel modification in the
> development manual still valid for Edison?

Should be.

Bruce

>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
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