yocto on Acer Aspire One NAV50

yocto on Acer Aspire One NAV50

[James Abernathy]

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I created a core-image-sato using the meta-n450 BSP hoping I could work
with it on the Acer Aspire One 532h-2588.  However, that netbook uses the
Atheros AR5B95 wireless NIC and the Atheros AR8132 wired NIC, which are not
recognized.  Is there anything already in Yocto that could be turned on to
support these devices, or am I left with porting the drives?

Since Ubuntu 11.10 with it's kernel 3.0.0 supports these devices and runs
on the netbook, I'm guessing it's a matter of configuring the kernel to
include these modules.

Does this sound right??

Jim A

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Re: yocto on Acer Aspire One NAV50

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-01-10 10:47 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
> I created a core-image-sato using the meta-n450 BSP hoping I could work
> with it on the Acer Aspire One 532h-2588. However, that netbook uses the
> Atheros AR5B95 wireless NIC and the Atheros AR8132 wired NIC, which are
> not recognized. Is there anything already in Yocto that could be turned
> on to support these devices, or am I left with porting the drives?
> Since Ubuntu 11.10 with it's kernel 3.0.0 supports these devices and
> runs on the netbook, I'm guessing it's a matter of configuring the
> kernel to include these modules.
> Does this sound right??

That should be all that is required. If the drivers you need are
indeed in 3.0 (I didn't go check explicitly), then you can create
a bbappend for the BSP in a layer, and add a configuration fragment
that enables the drivers you need (as modules or builtin, your
choice).

Examples of config fragments are in the BSP/kernel guides found on
the yocto project pages.

Cheers,

Bruce

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Re: yocto on Acer Aspire One NAV50

[Jim Abernathy]

On 01/10/2012 10:50 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 12-01-10 10:47 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
>> I created a core-image-sato using the meta-n450 BSP hoping I could work
>> with it on the Acer Aspire One 532h-2588. However, that netbook uses the
>> Atheros AR5B95 wireless NIC and the Atheros AR8132 wired NIC, which are
>> not recognized. Is there anything already in Yocto that could be turned
>> on to support these devices, or am I left with porting the drives?
>> Since Ubuntu 11.10 with it's kernel 3.0.0 supports these devices and
>> runs on the netbook, I'm guessing it's a matter of configuring the
>> kernel to include these modules.
>> Does this sound right??
>
> That should be all that is required. If the drivers you need are
> indeed in 3.0 (I didn't go check explicitly), then you can create
> a bbappend for the BSP in a layer, and add a configuration fragment
> that enables the drivers you need (as modules or builtin, your
> choice).
>
> Examples of config fragments are in the BSP/kernel guides found on
> the yocto project pages.
>
If I'm only making changes to the .config parameters, do I still need to 
create
a local bare clone of the yocto kernel and also git the poky-extras 
repository as mentioned
in the Developers Manual appendix B?

Jim A


> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>> Jim A
>>
>>
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Re: yocto on Acer Aspire One NAV50

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-01-10 11:31 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 10:50 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 12-01-10 10:47 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
>>> I created a core-image-sato using the meta-n450 BSP hoping I could work
>>> with it on the Acer Aspire One 532h-2588. However, that netbook uses the
>>> Atheros AR5B95 wireless NIC and the Atheros AR8132 wired NIC, which are
>>> not recognized. Is there anything already in Yocto that could be turned
>>> on to support these devices, or am I left with porting the drives?
>>> Since Ubuntu 11.10 with it's kernel 3.0.0 supports these devices and
>>> runs on the netbook, I'm guessing it's a matter of configuring the
>>> kernel to include these modules.
>>> Does this sound right??
>>
>> That should be all that is required. If the drivers you need are
>> indeed in 3.0 (I didn't go check explicitly), then you can create
>> a bbappend for the BSP in a layer, and add a configuration fragment
>> that enables the drivers you need (as modules or builtin, your
>> choice).
>>
>> Examples of config fragments are in the BSP/kernel guides found on
>> the yocto project pages.
>>
> If I'm only making changes to the .config parameters, do I still need to
> create
> a local bare clone of the yocto kernel and also git the poky-extras
> repository as mentioned
> in the Developers Manual appendix B?

Nope. You can just have your config fragment appended to the SRC_URI
and it will be applied to the existing BSP. Only if you were creating
a completely new board, and wanted to work with a local tree would you
need those clones.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Jim A
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>> Jim A
>>>
>>>
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