[yocto] some observations about yocto wiki page, "from git checkout to meta-intel BSP"

Stewart, David C david.c.stewart at intel.com
Sun Mar 4 08:14:00 PST 2012


Yeah, the example is pretty old, dating back to the 1.0 (bernard) release. 

Tom - it might be time to retire it, you think?

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>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
>Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 5:09 AM
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>Subject: [yocto] some observations about yocto wiki page, "from git checkout
>to meta-intel BSP"
>
>
>  yes, i know it's an editable wiki but i'd rather someone else make
>the changes just in case i'm misreading something.  it's early, and
>there's only decaf in the place.  this is bad.
>
>  anyway, using this page as grist for discussion:
>
>https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Transcript:_from_git_checkout_to_meta-
>intel_BSP
>
>"To build and run a meta-intel BSP, you need to check out a local copy
>of the poky repo ..."
>
>  i think that sentence demonstrates the yocto vs poky confusion koen
>was talking about -- a regular waffling between "yocto" sources and
>"poky" repos.
>
>  below that, there are references to
>git://git.pokylinux.org/poky.git -- should those references be updated
>to refer to the git.yoctoproject.org repos?
>
>  there's a reference to "poky-qemu qemux86" -- change to "runqemu
>qemux86"?  or is that the correct name in the last released version?
>(i rarely look at released versions.)
>
>  and i'm pretty sure that there's a missing reference to the
>meta-yocto layer here:
>
>BBLAYERS = " \
>  /usr/local/src/Yocto/meta \
>  /usr/local/src/Yocto/meta-intel/meta-fishriver \
>  "
>
>unless that's also correct for the last released version.
>
>  further down,
>
>  $ bitbake poky-image-sato-live
>
>there's no such bitbake target these days.
>
>  anyway, that was about 60 seconds worth of perusing.  if some
>meta-intel person wants to mess with that page, it's all yours.
>
>rday
>
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