[yocto] proper recipe for building for beagle xM? meta-ti?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 28 feb. 2012, om 23:28 heeft Robert P. J. Day het volgende geschreven:

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Op 28 feb. 2012, om 22:55 heeft Robert P. J. Day het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It is true that the beagleboard is a hardware reference board in the
>>>> yocto consolidated kernel tree and meta-yocto layers. That means
>>>> that it gets the yocto standard QA builds and boot testing.
>>>> 
>>>> That being said, if you are looking for the latest + specific
>>>> features then you've been pointed in a good direction .. meta-ti
>>>> will meet your needs.
>>>> 
>>>> As for disentangling and reducing questions in this area .. rest
>>>> assured, we are working on it.
>>> 
>>> ok, that's perfectly reasonable -- meta-yocto provides a generic,
>>> well-tested product, while the meta-ti layer provides more
>>> leading-edge content, correct?
>> 
>> No, the amount of testing is not the difference, the amount of
>> support for the board is. Meta-ti supports the camera interfaces, 3d
>> engine, dsp, crypto engines, expansion boards, etc. Meta-yocto lacks
>> all that for beagleboard.
> 
>  i understand that reasonably well, and i'll make one more
> observation, then i'll shut up.
> 
>  i cloned the meta-ti layer into my yocto clone, and here's the
> majority of the meta-ti README:
> 
> ===== start
> 
> This layer depends on:
> 
> URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
> branch: master
> revision: HEAD
> 
> URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
> branch: master
> revision: HEAD
> 
> URI: git://git.angstrom-distribution.org/meta-angstrom
> branch: master
> revision: HEAD
> 
> Currently meta-ti only works with the Angstrom distribution and hence
> requires the meta-angstrom layer. There are known issues when using
> gcc-4.6 based toolchain from OpenEmbedded-Core, thus gcc-4.5
> toolchain, provided by meta-openembedded, is needed. It is planned to
> fix these shortcomings in the near future and allow building the base
> BSP part of meta-ti with different distributions and layer stacks,
> such as: distro-less (only with OE-Core), with Yocto/Poky, with
> Angstrom or Arago.
> 
> Due to the above, it is now recommended to follow the instructions at
> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom
> 
> This will set it up for the OpenEmbedded-core layout instead of the
> old "Classic" OpenEmbedded-dev layout. You can optionally tweak
> sources/layers.txt and conf/bblayers.conf to (de)select BSP layers.
> 
> ===== end
> 
>  by the time i'm done reading that, i'm not sure whether i've been
> told i can use yocto as long as i do the necessary prep first, or that
> i should give up on yocto and just use angstrom directly.  

Well, if you use the angstrom setupscript you get 'yocto'. Your phrasing seems to suggest you are confusing 'yocto' with 'poky', which is a common mistake.