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

[Tom Zanussi]

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 16:14 +0000, Stewart, David C wrote:
> Yeah, the example is pretty old, dating back to the 1.0 (bernard) release. 
> 
> Tom - it might be time to retire it, you think?
> 

Apparently, they're still useful to people, so I think updating rather
than retiring them makes more sense at this point (or they or something
similar get merged into the Developer's guide?  For now, it's a
relatively small effort to update them, and we can decide whether to
move them later, I'm thinking).

Tom

> >-----Original Message-----
> >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
> >To: Yocto discussion list
> >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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