[yocto] can one lay hands on a galileo-based dev kit?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 16 May 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Friday 16 May 2014 08:51:35 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 May 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > So apologies for not replying earlier - I've not been directly
> > > involved in the BSP for Galileo, but I have been providing support
> > > for the team doing the IoT DevKit work. You should be able to build
> > > images for Galileo using what's in meta-intel-iot-devkit directly;
> > > you could also use the layers within it separately using your own
> > > separate OE-Core / Poky tree, but it's not really designed to be
> > > used in that way. If you really want to do it separately you should
> > > take care to use all three layers (meta-clanton-bsp, meta-galileo,
> > > and meta-iot-devkit) and set your DISTRO = "iot-devkit".
> >
> >   possibly a silly question, but what are the dependencies between
> > those three layers? i'm used to seeing layer dependencies listed in a
> > layer's "layer.conf" file. if i look at the meta-iot-devkit layer, its
> > layer.conf file says nothing about dependencies, but one of its kernel
> > recipes, "linux-yocto-clanton_3.8.bbappend", is clearly a reference to
> > a kernel recipe in the meta-clanton-bsp layer.
> >
> >   i would thus have expected to see that dependency listed in the
> > layer.conf file. has something about listing layer dependencies
> > changed while i wasn't looking?
>
> No, nothing has changed. The separation here is probably not as
> clearly defined as it ought to be. I guess what I'd say is, you
> shouldn't look at this as a fully worked example of how to structure
> things; it was put together out of various pieces and intended to be
> used as a whole rather than separate components.

  fair enough ... i should be able to test this by end of day.

rday

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