[yocto] Newb looking for where to start on unsupported hardware?

[daryl kuchay]

Hello,

I'm about 3 weeks in to light reading in documentation on Yocto. I found
the project when searching for Open Embedded.

My challenge is that I have ancient hardware. A Geode based tablet with
serial touchscreen and other niche items that will require me to build a
custom kernel for proper support. Also worthy of mention is that syslinux
is no longer supporting the hardware. Its not too far from an olpc but its
more proprietary. Made by DT Research. WebDT366 GX1 is the model.

While documentation does provide a great deal of information on what to do
once you get to the stage of building I am just not sure where to start. I
downloaded the build appliance but it only seems to build stock images that
allow for some scripted modification.

Without a great deal of knowledge on bitbake or what would be needed in the
form of scripts I am not sure that this is the right path to take.

Whats lacking in the documentation is an if/then scenario. Like if you need
to build a custom kernel start "here", then move to "here" and so on.

While I can find old mentions of OE-Classic build recipes for Geode I cant
seem to find out weather or not these are supported by Yocto.  The docs
seem to assume a level of knowledge that I do not have on open embedded or
a work flow within. Laying down that many bsp commands with no knowledge of
how to use is daunting.

Can someone help a newb out with where to start if one needed to config a
kernel, add a lot of software from inputattach to evdev, acpid,
xinput-calibrator and others? And how to move to the next step? My hope is
to make a .img that can be dd'd to the target with full hardware support.

Thank you in advance
Daryl
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