Re: Impressions of using Poky to create a BSP

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 05/27/2011 01:06 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On 05/27/2011 10:42 AM, Holger Freyther wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I hope these impressions are useful. In the last two days I added a BSP for a
>>> TI Davinci based system and I am afraid it was a bit harder than I think it
>>> should be. This is a summary of the underlying issues (without them being
>>> debugged or completely understood).
>>>
>>> meta-skeleton and BBFILES:
>>>    - Maybe it would be nice if the file glob would list *.bbappend as I think
>>>      many people want to use it.
>>>
>>> BBLAYERs and dependencies:
>>>     - I had changed BBFILES to list *.bbappend but the change didn't take
>>>       effect. I had to touch conf/local.conf to force a re-parse. So somehow
>>>       the layers config didn't end up in dependencies.
>>>
>>> fetch vs. fetch2:
>>>     - I wanted to fetch my kernel from my internal git/ssh repository. I was
>>>       not sure where to put the username (git://foo@bar or git://bar;user=foo)
>>
>> I believe the correct options would have been:
>>
>> ssh://foo@bar/path/to/repo
>> or
>> foo@bar:/path/to/repo
>>
>> with protocol=git
>>
> 
> This is backwards. The url scheme determines the fetcher to use, the
> protocol= determines the method that fetcher uses to obtain the
> sources. Holger had it correct. git:// to associate with the git
> fetcher, protocol= to ensure it uses ssh.

Doh, thanks for correcting. That explains some things for me. I had
thought a real git url was appropriate here, good to know!

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel