Re: Stumped. Can't get 2.6.37 TI kernel to boot when built with toolchain from denzil or Linaro gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2013.07-1_linux/

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:11:57PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
> > First question.  I looked at my 
> > poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers dir of a denzil checkout that 
> > last had c6a816x-evm support to use as kind of an example/guide.  I see 
> > recipes for linux-libc-headers_3.2.bb and linux-libc-headers_3.0.8.bb.  Do 
> > I need to create a recipe for 2.6.37 and set the SRC_URI for a 2.6.37 
> > commit so that my rootfs packages will be built against headers that match 
> > the version of the kernel I'm using?  It looked like 
> > linux-libc-headers.inc has some kind of check to decide on which headers 
> > to use (3 or 2.6) but I don't quite follow how it works yet.
> 
> yes you need to add a recipe for linux-libc-headers_2.6.37…. and also make 
> sure that your distro/machine chooses this for preferred provider for 
> linux-libc-headers

Well, if you use Dylan (or even Danny), it has a recipe already available in 
oe-core...


> > Second question.  When I try to bitbake core-image-minimal after adding in 
> > my kernel (a tar.bz2), it builds but the do_package phase gets errors:
> 
> > arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-objcopy:/home/hutch/oe_core_beagleboard/oe-core/build/tmp-eglibc/work/c6a816x_evm-oe-linux-gnueabi/linux-ti81xx-psp/2.6.37-r0/package/usr/src/kernel/image/usr/src/kernel/scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig: 
> > File format not recognized
> 
> what is that file ? can you run it through file cmd and find out what arch 
> its targeted for ? if its a host tool then remove it from install location