Re: yocto on Acer Aspire One NAV50

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

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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