From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (unknown [216.168.135.167]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9D2F6B6FF for ; Fri, 23 May 2014 15:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21340 invoked by uid 1003); 23 May 2014 15:37:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.122?) (philip@opensdr.com@108.44.91.50) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 23 May 2014 15:37:07 -0000 Message-ID: <537F6B22.8070804@balister.org> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:37:06 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org, Richard Cagley References: <1584812.c16lcQ9U8e@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> <1521334.KE7mPuYoZb@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1521334.KE7mPuYoZb@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Subject: Re: how to create a new layer X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:37:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/23/2014 03:11 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2014 15:46:01 Richard Cagley wrote: >>> One other thing to note - if there are overrides for the previous machine >>> (e.g. in bbappends you may see _zedboard-zynq7) you should change >>> these to _me so that they still apply. >> >> What is the threshold for making a new machine? That is, if I just >> have a .bbappend file I want, that should just involve creating a new >> layer and putting the bbappend file in the correct location. I >> shouldn't have to change anything else correct? >> >> For instance, if I just want to change the kernel configuration with a >> frag file I can put linux-xlnx_3.8.bbappedn in >> meta-me/recipes-kernel/linux and that's all I need? > > Yes, that should be all that is required - no need for your own machine > configuration in this case. > >> I guess I'm just confused at what point I actually need a new machine. > > If you want to change the global configuration for the machine substantially > from that in the original BSP, you may need to create your own machine > configuration; but for the exact same hardware as the original BSP supports I > would have thought that in most cases it would not be necessary. Basically, I make a machine whenever I will have hardware specific drivers, kernel configs, and device trees. Philip > > Cheers, > Paul >