From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com (arroyo.ext.ti.com [192.94.94.40]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D75E003E1 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from dlep26.itg.ti.com ([157.170.170.121]) by arroyo.ext.ti.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id q22Mon1c006724; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:50:49 -0600 Received: from DFLE71.ent.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep26.itg.ti.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q22MonJI010355; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:50:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from dlelxv22.itg.ti.com (172.17.1.197) by dfle71.ent.ti.com (128.247.5.62) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.323.3; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:50:48 -0600 Received: from gtwmills.gt.design.ti.com (gtwmills.gt.design.ti.com [158.218.100.52]) by dlelxv22.itg.ti.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q22Mom52028962; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:50:48 -0600 Message-ID: <4F514EC8.8000606@ti.com> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:50:48 -0500 From: William Mills User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" References: <4F4D457F.7000306@windriver.com> <4F514826.5050402@ti.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Yocto discussion list , Koen Kooi Subject: Re: proper recipe for building for beagle xM? meta-ti? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:50:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/02/2012 05:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, William Mills wrote: > > ... snip ... > >> Congratulations you are the first beta tester for the new README.txt >> language :) (patched two days ago). >> >> Denys: I suggest >> >> change: >> >> "Due to the above, it is now recommended to follow the instructions >> at http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom" >> >> to: >> >> "When the other layer combinations are supported instructions will >> be supplied here. Until that time please see the Angstrom setup >> instructions below. >> >> *** Angstrom w/ meta-ti Layer Stack setup: *** >> Please follow the instructions at >> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom" > > i might try something a bit different. given that angstrom is the > tested way to go, by all means, point that out and *strongly* > recommend that approach. > > on the other hand, what is the current issue with the yocto/meta-ti > combo? is it *known* to be broken? or is it simply not sufficiently > tested? in cases like that, i see no problem in cautioning people > about it, but telling them that if they're feeling adventurous, > they're welcome to give it a shot but if it breaks, as they say, they > get to keep all the pieces. > > don't discourage people from trying it, but make sure you give > proper instructions for how to use it, that's all. unless, as i said, > it's really and truly unusable. We will update the README when it is merely in need of testing. Today, we know there is code that does not work with GCC 4.6. Today, we know there are features in the recipes that do not work w/o Angstrom. As soon as we remove the above for even one platform we will update the README to reflect an Alpha state for oc-core &| poky layer stack for that platform(s).