Re: building Yocto for Pandaboard

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-02-09 09:59, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 08:36 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:14AM -0500, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
>>>   On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:16 PM, William Mills<wmills@ti.com>  wrote:
>>>> As Gary said there has not been too many end user questions on meta-ti yet.
>>>
>>>   All I care about is meta-ti as that is what all our products are based
>>>   on. I've been watching subject for a while now trying to discern all
>>>   the issues and make a wise choice.
>>
>> Brian,
>>
>>>   I'm wanting to switch from Arago to whatever TI supports next as I
>>>   supply the rest of our development team with tools and images that
>>>   they build applications on for our products and I can't jerk them
>>>   around changing distros.
>>
>> As you are aware, Arago is not going away - there is work going on in
>> meta-arago layer to update/port it to the new Yocto infrastructure.
>>
>> Arago/meta-arago is still going to be the official platform distribution for
>> TI SDK products. But, a separate meta-ti layer was created early in the
>> process to detach and unify the BSP layer and allow people to use TI hardware
>> with different distributions. And that's actually part of the problem, as
>> distributions like religions conflict with each other in a single layer... :)
>>
>
> Denys, from my point of view, there are two issues we need to solve:
>
> 1) Defining the meta-ti toolchain dependencies. Angstrom uses gcc-4.5
> for various reasons. Will the TI programs work against all gcc versions
> available from oe-core/meta-oe?

I've had good luck with the meta-ti layer + Poky (oe-core & meta-yocto).
I have my own kernels (for other OMAP boards that are not mainline), so
I don't use the meta-ti kernel recipes, but I do use much of the rest,
including the DSP bits.

>
> 2) Image construction pieces in oe-core are not all there yet. This is
> what leads to angstrom specific bits creeping into the BSP layer. I've
> talked with Paul Eggleton and Koen about this at FOSDEM. We should sit
> down next week at ELC and see if we can come up with a set os tasks we
> can push into oe-core that let all layer/distro combinations produce
> working images.

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