[yocto] Yocto linux-kernel

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-04-29 07:11, Parthiban Kandasamy wrote:
> our previous development was in kernel-2.6.32, so we do not like change the kernel level specification for new project because i/o interfaces is like previous project and we are
> upgrading only processor card only, so we like to go on same kernel.

Please keep your replies on the mailing list so that all may benefit.

It's understandable that you would want to keep with familiar versions
but 2.6.32 dates from 2009, many years before the BeagleBoard was even
created.  It is unlikely that a kernel from that period would run on
that board.  Also, much of the Yocto infrastructure (e.g. udev) relies
on much newer kernels to function properly.

If you want to use newer hardware, you are inevitably going to need
the newer software that goes with it.

>
> On 29 April 2015 at 18:13, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2015-04-29 06:38, Parthiban Kandasamy wrote:
>
>         i am using beagleboard-xm like board for my custom use. for my development i am using yocto-dora-1.5 as bsp and kernel-2.6.32(i downgraded).
>                    while bitbaking kernel, i got error as follows:
>
>         Log data follows:
>         | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_kernel_checkout
>         | Reinitialized existing Git repository in
>         /home/parthiban/UliveSytems/Parthiban/CODE/OpenSource/BSP/beagleboard-dora-10.0.0/BeagleBuild/tmp/work/beagleboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/2.6.32-r0/linux-2.6.32/.git/
>         | On branch standard/base
>         | nothing to commit, working directory clean
>         | ERROR. The branch 'meta' is required and was not
>         | found. Ensure that the SRC_URI points to a valid linux-yocto
>         | kernel repository
>         | WARNING:
>         /home/parthiban/UliveSytems/Parthiban/CODE/OpenSource/BSP/beagleboard-dora-10.0.0/BeagleBuild/tmp/work/beagleboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/2.6.32-r0/temp/run.do_kernel_checkout.32588:1
>         exit 1 from
>         |   exit 1
>         | ERROR: Function failed: do_kernel_checkout (log file is located at
>         /home/parthiban/UliveSytems/Parthiban/CODE/OpenSource/BSP/beagleboard-dora-10.0.0/BeagleBuild/tmp/work/beagleboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/2.6.32-r0/temp/log.do_kernel_checkout.32588)
>
>         due to this error i thought error can be cleared if kernel fetched from yocto git repository, but i cat get from there,  so how do i get kernel-2.6.32 for yocto project.
>
>
>     Why would you want such an old kernel for that board?
>
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