From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F714C80A46 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 18:20:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 88F7E166027D; Tue, 3 May 2011 17:20:41 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2-r929478 (2010-03-31) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2-r929478 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B12166026E; Tue, 3 May 2011 17:20:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4DC08DC8.908@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 17:20:40 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poky Project References: <4DC07C9A.8080202@mlbassoc.com> <20110503231224.GA5966@sakrah.homelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <20110503231224.GA5966@sakrah.homelinux.org> Subject: Re: Incorrect startup warning on ARM targets X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 23:20:42 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/03/2011 05:12 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > On (03/05/11 16:07), Gary Thomas wrote: >> When building for an ARM target, you may see this error: >> /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr is not<= 65536. This will cause problems with qemu so please fix the value (as root) >> >> This is a show-stopper; bitbake refuses to run until it's fixed. >> However, I don't believe it is useful or required any longer. From >> my understanding, it was there in the past because QEMU for ARM didn't >> work correctly unless this system parameter was set as indicated. That >> was when QEMU was being used during the build to create localization >> data. This is no longer being done and QEMU is not used during the >> build process. >> >> Perhaps we could eliminate this warning or make it conditional >> somehow? As is, asking the user to make a system-wide setting >> as root for something that's not necessary seems wrong. > > This warning is taken care of in qemu-native we build. But I think its > already fixed in upstream oe-core It's still in the Poky tree (sanity.bbclass) which is what I'm asking about. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------