[yocto] customising a bsp

[Sergio Torres Soldado]

Hi Dimitris,

 That is very versatile thanks. It is a way of solving the issue.

 Just as a side note this is what I did so far trying to separate the
changes to the machine:

 added the following to a layer I created:
.
|-- conf
|   `-- machine
|       `-- raspberrypi3-custom.conf

Initially raspberrypi3-custom.conf was just a copy of raspberrpi3.conf in
meta-raspberry but I get the following excerpt of an error:
"""
ERROR: linux-raspberrypi-1_4.14.98+gitAUTOINC+5d63a4595d-r0
do_kernel_metadata: Could not locate BSP definition for
raspberrypi3-custom/standard and no defconfig was provided
"""

To remedy this I added the following line to raspberrypi3-custom.conf:
"""
KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_raspberrypi3-custom ?= "bcm2709_defconfig
"""

But then I get the error:
"""
ERROR: bcm2835-bootfiles-20190212-r3 do_populate_lic: QA Issue:
bcm2835-bootfiles: LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file:
/opt/yocto/workspace/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi3_custom-poky-linux-gnueabi/bcm2835-bootfiles/20190212-r3/firmware-83977fe3b6ef54c1d29c83b0a778d330f523441f/boot/LICENCE.broadcom
[license-checksum]
ERROR: bcm2835-bootfiles-20190212-r3 do_populate_lic: Fatal QA errors
found, failing task.
ERROR: bcm2835-bootfiles-20190212-r3 do_populate_lic: Function failed:
populate_lic_qa_checksum
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
/opt/yocto/workspace/build/tmp/work/raspberrypi3_custom-poky-linux-gnueabi/bcm2835-bootfiles/20190212-r3/temp/log.do_populate_lic.30228
"""

I ended up editing raspberrypi3.conf directly basically branching
meta-raspberrypi.


On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 08:27, Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Serj,
>
> I'm using the -r / -R options in bitbake in order to customize the image
> via global
> variables and be able to build different configurations for the same
> machine and
> distro. You you use the same option to create e.g. different versions.
> Have a look
> in the documentation
>
>
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html
>
> search for these lines:
> -r PREFILE, --read=PREFILE
> -R POSTFILE, --postread=POSTFILE
>
> What those do is that you can add an extra configuration file wich either
> prepends
> or appends the local.conf file. I'm using it both ways, but for your case
> I think you
> need to add your default versions with ?= in the local.conf and then
> override them
> with an external conf file and use --read option.
>
> So, let's say that you have the minimal-image then you can have a number or
> versioned configuration files (e.g. version-1.0.conf, version-1.2.conf,
> e.t.c.) then
> you setup your environment as usual using your environment setup scripts or
> just calling oe-init-build-env for your machine and then you'll be able to
> build
> different versions like this:
>
> bitbake -R version-1.0.conf minimal-image
>
>
> You can also build a single recipe using the version file
>
> bitbake -R version-1.2.conf virtual/kernel
>
>
> Then, if you like, you can create a wrapper script that actually
> simplifies the call
> and just pass the version. For example, you can create an executable bash
> script
> and these
>
> #!/bin/bash
>> CONF_VERSION="1.0"
>> while getopts v:h" OPTION
>> do
>>     case $OPTION in
>>     v) CONF_VERSION=${OPTARG} ;;
>>     h) echo "Print some help" ;;
>>     *) echo "Print some help" ;;
>> esac
>> done
>> bitbake --postread=${CONF_VERSION} ${1}
>
>
> And then call the script using -v to pass the version. Of course, that
> assumes
> that all version files are in the same folder with the local.conf. I
> usually make
> such scripts but they are doing much more stuff, for example use variables
> from the extra conf file to run other tasks.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitris
>
> Sergio Torres Soldado <torres.soldado at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 30. März
> 2019, 18:34:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  What is the best alternative to setting variables in local.conf? The
>> specific use-case is customising a meta-raspberrypi build, which has a
>> bunch of variables that are picked up by the MACHINE code to influence
>> build configurations. I want to version these customisations hence removing
>> them from local.conf.
>>
>>  I have tried adding a machine definition in a separate layer that
>> includes the same files as those from the machines in meta-raspberry pi but
>> there is logic that depends on the machine name and building an image fails.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Serj.
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