[yocto] yocto project in raspberry pi 3

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-12-07 11:15, Rushin Thakkar wrote:
>     hello there i am trying to do yocto project on raspberry pi 3.
>     when i run bitbake rpi-basic-image.
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>     this task 0: bcm2835-bootfiles-20151021-r3 do_fetch (pid 4922) is taking too much time. after that
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> You should use latest master where we have switched to tarball fetch
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> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-raspberrypi/commit/?id=716b6a9cd7f24a8bacd539bb40519d185e3f963a
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>     i am getting message like
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>     ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 128, output:
>     Cloning into bare repository '/home/rushin/yoctopi/poky/build/downloads/git2/github.com.raspberrypi.firmware.git'...
>     fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>     fatal: early EOF
>     fatal: index-pack failed
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>     ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL:
>     'git://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git;protocol=git;branch=master'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
>     ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>     /home/rushin/yoctopi/poky/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi2-poky-linux-gnueabi/bcm2835-bootfiles/20151021-r3/temp/log.do_fetch.3385
>     ERROR: Task 207 (/home/rushin/yoctopi/poky/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-bsp/bootfiles/bcm2835-bootfiles.bb, do_fetch)
>     failed with exit code '1'
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>     can you tell me how to download this file manually??

Doing it manually will take just as long and end up downloading 6GB+ of [mostly useless] data.

You really need to update to the latest version of this recipe which no longer
uses GIT to fetch the files (replaced by much smaller TAR files)

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>     like in download folder there is file called
>     wpa_supplicant-2.4.tar.gz . i can download this file. but how to get these files like
>     wpa_supplicant-2.4.tar.gz.done,wpa_supplicant.sh.done??
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