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

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

On 12-01-12 11:48 AM, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>  wrote:
>> 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 :)
>
> I know it probably isn't the best way (did it mostly because I was in
> a hurry and never took the time to think about the "right" way to do
> it) but I've made changes to the kernel&  u-boot before in the tmp
> directories (with Angstrom and Arago) and build images manually (make
> uImage etc.) and that was OK for quick/dirty things but I've gotten
> burned before by forgetting my changes and doing a bitbake build and
> wiping out my changes.   I like the method of pointing yocto to local
> git repos and think that is better for long term development as it
> will contain history and would be easy to determine what changed etc.
> I'd like to do something similar with u-boot and thought you guys had
> worked out a defacto standard way but in looking through all the docs
> it doesn't look that way.

Ah yes. Nothing in particular. I was a non-oe import to yocto, so a
lot of what I've done is from being bitten in the past and making sure
that it didn't happen to me in a new environment.

Of course, I'm all for general solutions and getting feedback as well!

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Regards,
>
> Brian