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 yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350E4E0120C for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 2AB1016601AB; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:41:13 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) 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 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC77A1660187; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:41:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4E515F57.2060407@mlbassoc.com> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:41:11 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?UHJ6ZW1layBPZ29yemHFgmVr?= References: <4e51533cbaea03.13400098@wp.pl> In-Reply-To: <4e51533cbaea03.13400098@wp.pl> Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Several noob's problems: 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: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:41:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 2011-08-21 12:49, Przemek Ogorzałek wrote: > Hello! > > I've got some problems with using Poky and I couldn't find any solutions in documentation or wiki, so I hope that someone will be able to help me. Some questions might sound > stupid, but I've got almost zero experience with embedded hardware, and even some obvious things are a mystery to me. > > Question one: > > There is an excellent instruction of booting the device over network, but I need to download the image directly to device. How do I do that? It would depend partly on what sort of storage you have on your target. Some details might help provide better answers. What I do is boot a specially configured target image which knows how to download the final image and move/install it onto the target. > Question two: > > I have installed the Eclipse plug-in, but it requires running "bitbake meta-ide-support" to build toolchain. Is there any way to use pre-build tarballs from > http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/downloads/yocto-1.0/toolchain/i686/ ? > > I have written in another mail (Subject: "glibc building problem") why I can't simply create my own toolchain (compilation problems). Toolchains and Poky have quite an entangled history. My experience is it's best [easier ] to just use the defaults and let Poky build what it wants. > Question three: > > As I understand, to customize my Poky, I have to edit recipes (or write my own). There are plenty of them however in meta directory, and finding a pattern among them is rather > difficult. Is there any sort of wizard (I mean something like "make menuconfig" during normal kernel compilation) for it, or I have to study meta directory? > > I use Poky 5.0.1 on 32-bit host with Fedora 15 and my target is PowerPC. You might try the cutting edge (check the master branch out via git). I don't have any troubles building for PowerPC with it, even on Fedora 15. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------