[yocto] Openvswitch integration in yocto

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-10-29 11:31, Sandeep G.R wrote:
> Hi Sonia,
>
>          Add this line IMAGE_INSTALL_append += "openvswitch" to*QorIQ-SDK-V1.4-20130814-yocto/meta-fsl-networking/images/fsl-image-core.bb <http://fsl-image-core.bb>.*

It's not necessary (and indeed, poor practice) to make a change to the main recipes like this.

Much better would be to add that line to "local.conf" and leave the main recipes untouched.
Of course, you still have to rebuild the image (step 3) for this to have any affect.

> *
> *
> And do step 3 and openvswitch will be on T4240QDS.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com <mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Sonia,
>
>     On Tuesday 29 October 2013 12:33:04 sonia verma wrote:
>     > For compiling openvswitch i perform following steps:-
>     >
>     >    1.  bitbake -f -c compile openvswitch.
>     >    2.  bitbake openvswitch.
>     >    3.  bitbake fsl-image-core.
>     >
>     > but when i get fsl-image-core-t4240rdb-20131028123337.rootfs.ext2.gz.u-boot
>     >  & boot the board with uImage & above file system i did not find any
>     > openvswitch utilities. can you please guide me to how to integrate
>     > openvswitch in yocto.
>
>     If you wish openvswitch to be included in your image you will need to add it
>     explicitly - see this section of the manual:
>
>     http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#usingpoky-extend-customimage
>
>     Once you have done this, steps 1 and 2 are no longer necessary.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Paul
>
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>     Paul Eggleton
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