Re: Does Edison work with Beagleboard & linux-yocto-3.0 kernel?

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

On 12-01-12 11:20 AM, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>  wrote:
>> The bitbake AUTOREV code should take care of updating the clone
>> of your local repo in downloads/git2. I take it that this isn't
>> happening ?
>
> ... haven't tried ... was just sticking to the example in the
> documentation which says to push changes and do a cleanall.  The spin

Good point. I hadn't noticed that it was in there. Worth trying
without it, and raising a bug if it isn't required. It's
bitbake internals rather than kernel at play here, so I'm far
from authoritative about what should or shouldn't work.

> time on my dev machine wasn't too bad but long enough to get old quick
> if I had to do it often.

Agreed!

>
>> It should be (largely) as simple as that. We could create something
>> simple and throw it in with the meta-kernel-dev layer if there's any
>> interest in adding it.
>
> Just wanting to know what the "best practice" is as I have lots of
> platforms to support.

I prefer to work this way, since managing patches in a source git
repository is much easier for me. If you only have a few patches,
then they can just be pushed on top and added to the SRC_URI, but
you'd be doing more development under tmp/work/ in that case .. and
I'm paranoid about losing things :)

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Regards,
>
> Brian