[yocto] BeagleBone with meta-ti layer

Thu Jan 26 07:24:54 PST 2012

On 2012-01-26 08:07, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-01-26 07:06, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2012-01-26 06:50, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>>> On 26/01/12 13:27, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 2012-01-26 05:35, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>> On 2012-01-26 05:01, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>>>>>> On 26/01/12 12:00, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>>>> Op 26 jan. 2012, om 12:06 heeft Jack Mitchell het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I will soon be receiving a Beaglebone and I wish to transfer the work I have been doing with Yocto on the Beagleboard over to the Beaglebone, to show my company how the same
>>>>>>>> application codebase can be run different platforms using Linux/Yocto/etc..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have been looking at the meta-ti layer and trying to figure out how it works and how I will integrate it into the yocto build environment, but I thought I would just throw a
>>>>>>>> query out to see if anybody is doing this and if there are any pitfalls I should avoid.
>>>>>>> There's a README in the meta-ti layer, follow the instructions in there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Koen,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I understand that there is a readme in the meta-ti layer however this refers specifically to using Angstrom and associated layers, where as I want to build specifically for
>>>>>> yocto.
>>>>>> So I was looking for pointers for abstracting the meta-ti layer form angstrom over to Yocto.
>>>>>
>>>>> I gave this a try, just adding the meta-ti layer into my stack.
>>>>> Sadly, it blew up right away with this error:
>>>>>
>>>>> ERROR: Failure expanding variable FILESPATH, expression was ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'tipspkernel',
>>>>> "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/linux-gnueabi:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/arm:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/build-linux:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/pn-linux-ti33x-psp:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/beaglebone:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/armv7a:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/amltd:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/forcevariable:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/${FEED_ARCH}:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/ti33x:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipe
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>>>>> el/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/libc-glibc:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1/tipspkernel/:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/linux-gnueabi:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/arm:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/build-linux:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/pn-linux-ti33x-psp:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/beaglebone:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/armv7a:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/amltd:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/forcevariable:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/${FEED_ARCH}:/home/local/poky-multi/meta
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>>>>> cipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/ti33x:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/libc-glibc:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp/tipspkernel/:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/linux-gnueabi:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/arm:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/build-linux:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/pn-linux-ti33x-psp:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/beaglebone:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/armv7a:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/amltd:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/forcevariable:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/${FEED_ARCH}:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-t
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>>>>> pes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/ti33x:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/libc-glibc:/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files/tipspkernel/:",
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>>>>> "", d)}${@base_set_filespath([ "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1-r0",
>>>>> "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1", "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp",
>>>>> "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp-3.1", "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp",
>>>>> "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/files", "/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux" ], d)} which triggered exception SyntaxError: EOL while
>>>>> scanning
>>>>> string literal (FILESPATH, line 1)
>>>>> ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure what this means or how to diagnose what's wrong.
>>>>
>>>> I worked past this. I turns out that my <DISTRO>.conf file had
>>>> this line in it (needed by some of the OLD meta-texasinstruments
>>>> recipes):
>>>> OVERRIDES .= ":${FEED_ARCH}:${SOC_FAMILY}"
>>>> I took out the FEED_ARCH and now I'm getting farther.
>>>>
>>>> Next hurdle:
>>>> Could not include required file recipes-images/angstrom/systemd-image.bb
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> n.b. I have done the same thing successfully before with the
>>>>> Angstrom meta-texasinstruments layer (which I know has been
>>>>> deprecated and replaced by meta-ti), so I know the process can
>>>>> work.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> From a clean poky edison build directory with machine_beagleboard selected and the meta-ti layer enabled last in my bblayers conf I receive this error:
>>>
>>> ERROR: Could not inherit file classes/systemd.bbclass
>>>
>>> However I cannot find where this is being called from in the meta-ti layer.. it seems very similar to what Gary has run into...
>>
>> Try adding this to local.conf
>> BBMASK = ".*/meta-ti/recipes-misc/"
>> This will let bitbake skip the troublesome recipes. Since you're
>> interested in building Yocto, it should be OK.
>
> Next, problem: I tried to build for my BeagleBone, but the kernel
> build failed with this error:
> | arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S: Assembler messages:
> | arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:127: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r2,cpsr'
> | arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:134: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `mrs r2,cpsr'
> | arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:136: Error: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register -- `msr cpsr_c,r2'
> | make[2]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.o] Error 1
> | make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> | make[1]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
> | make: *** [uImage] Error 2
> | ERROR: oe_runmake failed
> NOTE: package linux-ti33x-psp-3.1-r0: task do_compile: Failed
> ERROR: Task 352 (/home/local/poky-multi/meta-ti/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti33x-psp_3.1.bb, do_compile) failed with exit code '1'
>
> Looks like an incompatibility with the tools
> Angstrom = gcc-cross-4.5-r45+svnr181733
> Yocto = gcc-cross-4.6.2+svnr181430-r20

Or possibly:
   Angstrom = binutils-cross-2.20.1-r9
   Yocto = binutils-cross-2.22-r2

>
> Oh well...
>

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