Re: Usage of xenomai-images

[Per Oberg <pero@wolfram.com>]

----- Den 15 jun 2020, på kl 17:57, Jan Kiszka jan.kiszka@siemens.com skrev:

> On 15.06.20 17:34, Per Oberg via Xenomai wrote:
> > Hi list

>> I thought I'd take the xenomai-images from [1] out for a spin and I think I got
> > it working. However, A few pointers about what is what would have been helpful.

> > E.g.

>> Under "Building Target Images" there could have been a note saying that you need
>> the kas.yml files and board-qemu-amd64.yml available. I feel those instructions
> > are a bit incomplete.

> We are happy to take patches! It's always a bit tricky for the those
> using the tool every day in various projects to document the
> (non-)obvious parts for first-time users.

Thanks, I'll do that. I just need to get back up on Github again.

>> At docker-hub there are no comments/descriptions for the kas-isar and kas images
> > so it's a bit difficult to know what to use.

>> Now it seems to be working when using the provided "kas-docker" script, but then
>> I tried using a bind-mount and bash to get inside the docker and run it from
>> there. 'docker run -it --mount
> > type=bind,source="$HOME"/kas-builder,target=/builder kasproject/kas bash'.

> Such "simple" docker calls are where kas-docker evolved from. If you
> look at the latest version, it can do way more. It's goal is to provide
> the same frontend as kas natively.


>> For the "kas" docker image I get errors related to missing isar, and for the
>> kas-isar docker image i get "mount: /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc: permission
>> denied." so i tried adding the --privileged flag which seems to be working.
>> Perhaps there could be a better "Start Here" guide giving some hints about
> > this.


> "kas-docker --isar build ..." is doing that for you. "docker/podman run"
> is for the experts. That's why we documented the former.

>> Also, are there any binary links to -wic files that I can download and run using
> > my own qemu so that I don't have to build them myself?

> So far, there is no public build and, thus, artifacts. We will probably
> have them as catch-by of using xenomai-image for regular testing "soon".

> Jan

Great! I think that would be very helpful for attracting people to xenomai. 

> > [1] https://gitlab.denx.de/Xenomai/xenomai-images

> > Per Öberg


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