[yocto] working my way through the kernel hands-on labs finally

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 13-04-08 11:41 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    finally have the time to work my way through the ELC 2013 hands on
> kernel labs described here:
>
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/presentations/working-kernel
>
> since i'll almost certainly use some of them in my next yocto course,
> so the occasional question for anyone who's already been down this
> road.  start with lab 1.
>
>    the doc mentions including the meta-yocto and meta-yocto-bsp layers
> -- are those strictly necessary? the layer.conf definition file for
> the lab1 layer doesn't list those layers as dependencies. what will
> happen if i leave them out? what's the policy on explicitly listing
> dependencies on those two layers in a new layer?
>
>    also, just doing a basic fetch for lab1 produces:
>
> ERROR: QA Issue:
> /home/rpjday/yocto/k_lab/layers/meta-lab1-qemux86/recipes-kernel/linux/linux_3.0.18.bb:
> Variable FILES is set as not being package specific, please fix this.
>
>    is that deliberate? something that will be resolved later in the
> lab as part of an exercise? just curious.

Probably not deliberate, the kernel labs aren't about packaging. Which 
branch
are you using for your tests ? Even if it's an old release branch, there
may have been some QA backports between the time the lab was done, and
the time you are running it.

Bruce

>
> rday
>