From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gnukia.org ([85.214.67.64] helo=cbs.gnukia.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBpYY-0000wd-Eb for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:12:50 +0200 Received: from cbs.gnukia.org (cbs.gnukia.org [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12050EC4003 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:54:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on cbs.gnukia.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=8.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [192.168.0.21] (mail.grandeye.com [82.16.22.188]) by cbs.gnukia.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D76E8EC4002 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:54:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:00:16 +0100 From: Tilman Baumann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <504E1F94.9000606@baumann.name> <20120911044922.GD2980@sakrah.homelinux.org> <504EFEE1.3040000@baumann.name> In-Reply-To: X-Filtered: By ProxSMTP Message-ID: <5050B190.2080409@baumann.name> X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Server 5.6.42/RELEASE, bases: 20111108 #5646748, check: 20120912 clean Subject: Re: minimal template layer for new machine support X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:12:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/09/12 14:48, Andrea Galbusera wrote: > Hi Tilman, > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Tilman Baumann wrote: >> On 11/09/12 05:49, Khem Raj wrote: >>> On (10/09/12 18:12), Tilman Baumann wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm working on a TI DM812x support overlay. >>>> I guess what it comes down to is a new kernel recipe (based on TI's >>>> sources) and this funny two stage u-boot. >>>> I think I can write the recipes. But what I don't quite see is how I >>>> would add a new supported machine in the first place? >>>> I was trying to orient myself on a few existing machine support >>>> layers. But I think I'm still missing the point. >>>> What are the minimal basics to implement? Where should I start? >>> check meta-ti >>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-ti/ >>> >>> may be there is a BSP already or something similar you can start off. >>> >>> >> Oh, great. I think I can work with that. >> I only knew the Arago project, but that is not based on oe-core. > As far as I know, there also exists an effort by the meta-ti people to > port the original Arago distro to the new layered architecture over > oe-core: this is called meta-arago > (http://arago-project.org/git/?p=meta-arago.git;a=summary). > You'd better ask on the meta-ti list what the state of the art is for > this project, but I think it is supposed to work with meta-ti and > provide an alternative distro layer to Angstrom. > It seems to be lacking the board support for dm813x-evm. I will ask the arago guys about it. But really, since I still have to do kernel and u-boot from scratch, I don't think I gain much. (I can't use the original TI stuff.) I guess if I would grokk how a basic hardware enablement layer is done, I would be better off. Thanks TIlman