[yocto] remaining comments on current BSP developers guide

Rifenbark, Scott M scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com
Mon Apr 22 11:20:49 PDT 2013


Robert, 

Fixed the two points below in the doc.   See http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.4/bsp-guide/bsp-guide.html.

Thanks again, 
Scott

>-----Original Message-----
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>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
>Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:00 AM
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>Subject: [yocto] remaining comments on current BSP developers guide
>
>
>  (again, someone up the food chain can decide what's worth
>processing.)
>
>1.6.1 Common Features
>
>* "Both tools [yocto-bsp and yocto-kernel] reside in the scripts/
>subdirectory of the Source Directory." no, they don't, they're in
>meta-yocto/scripts/, so simply sourcing oe-init-build-env isn't
>sufficient to add them to the search path, is it? (i'm guessing it
>used to be, but no longer.)
>
>1.6.2 Creating a new BSP Layer ...
>
>     $ yocto-bsp list karch
>     Architectures available:
>         qemu
>         x86_64
>         i386
>         powerpc
>         arm
>         mips
>
>  but if you run that, you get the additional arch "layer". where's
>that coming from? is it a holdover from before there was a yocto-layer
>command? i never noticed that before now.
>
>* "Assuming you have sourced the environment ..." Again, you don't get
>these utilities in your PATH by sourcing the environment, you need to
>do that manually.
>
>* "...pressing enter and providing an invalid response..." um, what is
>that supposed to say?

Poor wording - changed to "Pressing enter without supplying anything on the command line or pressing enter with an invalid response causes...."

>
>* Point 6.  Do you actually need to include the meta-yocto and
>meta-yocto-bsp layers in this new layer's bblayers.conf file? I don't
>see why but maybe I'm missing something obvious.
>
>* also, typo "BBLAYERS = ?"

Fixed typo.

>
>  i think that's everything.
>
>rday
>
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