[yocto] menuconfig vs. config fragments?

[James Abernathy]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> my goal of this test was to see if I could use the n450 BSP as a
> starting
> >> point for a BSP to support my Acer Aspire One n450 based netbook.  The
> >> core-image-sato will boot from USB key on the netbook if I use the ZIP
> drive
> >> format for the USB key, but the current n450 BSP doesn't include the
> drivers
> >> for the networking hardware in the netbook.
> >>
> >> I found by testing, using the menuconfig option documented in the
> >> Developer Manual Appendix B example, that I needed to add 2 parameters
> to
> >> the .config:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_ATH9K_PCI
> >> CONFIG_ATL1C
> >>
> >> To make this change easier to manage and more permanent, I thought about
> >> creating a config fragment.  I put the config parameters in a file,
> >> myconfig, in the linux-yocto directory at the same level as the
> >> linux-yocto_3.2.bbappend file, where I added:
> >>
> >> SRC_URI += "file//myconfig"
> >>
> >
> > Try to use myconfig.cfg.
>
> This would be the key part, since as a few noted, .cfg is what
> triggers the fragment
> processing to actually notice the file and stack it after the base /
> defined configuration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
> I'm testing it now, but it sound like the problem.  So the Developer
Manual uses the .cfg in the example, but the BSP Guide does not.  That's an
area to fix.  Since this is critical,it needs to be pointed out, in my mind.

JIm A

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