Re: Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

On 11/14/2012 11:05 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 11/14/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Bird wrote:
>> On 11/14/2012 10:50 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> runqemu doesn't quite know what to make of poky-tiny :-) Try the following:
>>>
>>> $ qemu-system-i386 -kernel path/to/kernel -initrd path/to/image.cpio.gz
>>> -nographic -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram0"
>>
>> Ahh.  That's helpful.  Thanks.

This is working now.  Thanks.

BTW - how do I stop the kernel/emulator?
There's no 'shutdown', and 'halt' and 'reboot' don't do anything.
Is there a key sequence to get back to the qemu monitor??

>>> I really need to get the poky-tiny docs going... right after I finish
>>> these kernel docs I guess... anyone want to volunteer?
>>
>> I'd be happy to write some stuff up.  It wouldn't
>> be exhaustive, but I could document what I've found out about
>> (the LIBC_FEATURE stuff, and some of the dependencies I've found,
>> as well as invocation tips and some of the differences between
>> the poky default and poky-tiny packages and features).
>>
>> Where would you like it?  Is there a wiki page or a doc already started?
> 
> Not yet, how about here:
> 
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Projects/Poky-Tiny
> 
> And we'll link to it here:
> 
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Projects
> 
> Thanks for volunteering, very much appreciated!

There's some initial stuff there now.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
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