[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] Compute Module 3 machine .conf questions

[Andrei Gherzan]

Currently, the cm3 machine is only there as for people to see clearly what
machine as supported. As well, in some cases, we need some machine specific
tweaks so we need a new machine - it's not the case here.

--
Andrei Gherzan

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Steve Pavao <stevep at korgrd.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
>
> We were able to verify that we could directly use the raspberrypi3-64.conf
> for the cm3 as 64-bit, as you had suggested.  Thanks for that suggestion.
>
> It just seemed a bit confusing that there is only one cm3 machine conf,
> and it tunnels through to a rpi2.  All the online doc about the cm3
> mentions the rpi3.  A colleague wonders if there are any differences that
> someone was planning to eventually use that cm3 conf to enumerate,
> otherwise - having a cm3 conf seems like unnecessary duplication.
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> - Steve Pavao
> Korg R&D
>
>
> On May 1, 2018, at 9:39 AM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:40 AM, Steve Pavao <stevep at korgrd.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My company has bought a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 for evaluation, and
>> I have a 2 questions about the supplied machine .conf files for it.
>>
>> 1. Should the supplied raspberrypi-cm3.conf file internally refer to the
>> Raspberry Pi 3 instead of the Raspberry Pi 2, since the RPi3 is the
>> hardware basis of the Compute Module 3?
>>
>
> RaspberryPi 3 is currently almost the same as RaspberryPi 2 in terms of
> configuration. What is the problem you are facing?
>
>
>> 2. Should there also be an additional .conf file supplied in the
>> meta-raspberry pi layer for a 64-bit version of poky Linux for the Compute
>> Module 3, just as there is a raspberrypi3-64 machine .conf for the RPi3?
>>
>
> You can use directly raspberrypi3-64 as far as I am aware. The cm confs
> are used as aliases right now. They point to one of the Raspberrypi 2 or 3
> machine configurations.
>
> --
> Andrei G.
>
>
>
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