configuring kernel for imx233

configuring kernel for imx233

[Gnichi Mohamed]

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Hello guys

I am new to this world and i am enjoying it for the past week.
I have the imx233 olinuxino maxi and decider to make a very tiny system for
it so i choose yocto. The other reason is that i am familiar with gentoo
and i thought maybe my experience with gentoo could help.
Well i am on my gentoo and i successfully built core-image-minimal with
some additional packages and i want to configure and recompile the kernel.
so i did
bitbake -c menuconfig linux-fslc
but some exception about python and other things that i couldn't follow.
Here is the exceptions http://pastebin.com/CBcLX1j1
I have  Gentoo x86_64,python2.7

Any kind of suggestions are appreciated
Cordially

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Re: configuring kernel for imx233

[Trevor Woerner]

I gave this a try on my machine (openSuSE 13.1) and it appears to work
fine. Can you provide us with more information regarding the procedure
you followed? What commands you typed for your initial build? What your
build information is? What your local.conf looks like?

In my case my conf/local.conf is:

    BB_NUMBER_THREADS = '6'
    PARALLEL_MAKE = '-j 6'
    DL_DIR ?= "/home/trevor/devel/Downloads"
    ACCEPT_FSL_EULA = "1"

    MACHINE ??= 'imx233-olinuxino-maxi'
    MYBUILDBASE = "/home/trevor/build/yocto/fsl/repo-master/${MACHINE}"
    TMPDIR = "${MYBUILDBASE}/tmp"
    SSTATE_DIR = "${MYBUILDBASE}/sstate-cache"

    DISTRO ?= 'poky'
    PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_ipk"
    EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
    USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink"
    PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
    BB_DISKMON_DIRS = "\
        STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \
        STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \
        STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \
        ABORT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \
        ABORT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \
        ABORT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K"
    PACKAGECONFIG_pn-qemu-native = "sdl"
    PACKAGECONFIG_pn-nativesdk-qemu = "sdl"
    ASSUME_PROVIDED += "libsdl-native"
    CONF_VERSION = "1"

    INHERIT += "buildhistory"
    BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT = "1"


and my build information (based on "master") is:

    Build Configuration:
    BB_VERSION        = "1.23.1"
    BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
    NATIVELSBSTRING   = "openSUSE-project-13.1"
    TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
    MACHINE           = "imx233-olinuxino-maxi"
    DISTRO            = "poky"
    DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.6+snapshot-20140710"
    TUNE_FEATURES     = "arm armv5 thumb dsp"
    TARGET_FPU        = "soft"
    meta             
    meta-yocto        =
    "(detachedfrom6879c3c):6879c3c903ec7d08cf0240281c83d85b4a42b6db"
    meta-oe           =
    "(detachedfrom87bbe91):87bbe91686e1bbc9036aacd924162f17db214aad"
    meta-fsl-arm      =
    "(detachedfrom31a0928):31a0928cbbe707548712ec3612cdc727a3775501"
    meta-fsl-arm-extra =
    "(detachedfrom456c270):456c27085a70bb1385a4c2e28ba80ac74d6f533e"
    meta-fsl-demos    =
    "(detachedfrome60ea24):e60ea240aecbf8fc69c4d18ab6d1361376372c6e"

Re: configuring kernel for imx233

[Gnichi Mohamed]

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Hi trevor
I resolved this issue by redirecting the terminal to xterm instead of
konsole or yakuake
i added this line to my local.conf
OE_TERMINAL = "xterm"

And the menuconfig pops then in a seperate xterm window.

Thank you



2014-07-10 14:00 GMT+01:00 Trevor Woerner <trevor.woerner@linaro.org>:

> I gave this a try on my machine (openSuSE 13.1) and it appears to work
> fine. Can you provide us with more information regarding the procedure
> you followed? What commands you typed for your initial build? What your
> build information is? What your local.conf looks like?
>
> In my case my conf/local.conf is:
>
>     BB_NUMBER_THREADS = '6'
>     PARALLEL_MAKE = '-j 6'
>     DL_DIR ?= "/home/trevor/devel/Downloads"
>     ACCEPT_FSL_EULA = "1"
>
>     MACHINE ??= 'imx233-olinuxino-maxi'
>     MYBUILDBASE = "/home/trevor/build/yocto/fsl/repo-master/${MACHINE}"
>     TMPDIR = "${MYBUILDBASE}/tmp"
>     SSTATE_DIR = "${MYBUILDBASE}/sstate-cache"
>
>     DISTRO ?= 'poky'
>     PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_ipk"
>     EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
>     USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink"
>     PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
>     BB_DISKMON_DIRS = "\
>         STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \
>         STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \
>         STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \
>         ABORT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \
>         ABORT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \
>         ABORT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K"
>     PACKAGECONFIG_pn-qemu-native = "sdl"
>     PACKAGECONFIG_pn-nativesdk-qemu = "sdl"
>     ASSUME_PROVIDED += "libsdl-native"
>     CONF_VERSION = "1"
>
>     INHERIT += "buildhistory"
>     BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT = "1"
>
>
> and my build information (based on "master") is:
>
>     Build Configuration:
>     BB_VERSION        = "1.23.1"
>     BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
>     NATIVELSBSTRING   = "openSUSE-project-13.1"
>     TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
>     MACHINE           = "imx233-olinuxino-maxi"
>     DISTRO            = "poky"
>     DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.6+snapshot-20140710"
>     TUNE_FEATURES     = "arm armv5 thumb dsp"
>     TARGET_FPU        = "soft"
>     meta
>     meta-yocto        =
>     "(detachedfrom6879c3c):6879c3c903ec7d08cf0240281c83d85b4a42b6db"
>     meta-oe           =
>     "(detachedfrom87bbe91):87bbe91686e1bbc9036aacd924162f17db214aad"
>     meta-fsl-arm      =
>     "(detachedfrom31a0928):31a0928cbbe707548712ec3612cdc727a3775501"
>     meta-fsl-arm-extra =
>     "(detachedfrom456c270):456c27085a70bb1385a4c2e28ba80ac74d6f533e"
>     meta-fsl-demos    =
>     "(detachedfrome60ea24):e60ea240aecbf8fc69c4d18ab6d1361376372c6e"
>
>

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Re: configuring kernel for imx233

[Trevor Woerner]

On 07/10/14 09:05, Gnichi Mohamed wrote:
> I resolved this issue by redirecting the terminal to xterm instead of
> konsole or yakuake
> i added this line to my local.conf
> OE_TERMINAL = "xterm"

That's great to hear. Would you like to update your email on the Yocto
mailing list too so that others can benefit from your solution?

Re: [meta-freescale] configuring kernel for imx233

[Gnichi Mohamed]

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Hi Guys,
Thank you Trevor for your interest
Regards



2014-07-10 15:48 GMT+01:00 Trevor Woerner <trevor.woerner@linaro.org>:

> On 07/10/14 09:05, Gnichi Mohamed wrote:
> > I resolved this issue by redirecting the terminal to xterm instead of
> > konsole or yakuake
> > i added this line to my local.conf
> > OE_TERMINAL = "xterm"
>
> That's great to hear. Would you like to update your email on the Yocto
> mailing list too so that others can benefit from your solution?
>

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Re: configuring kernel for imx233

[Gnichi Mohamed]

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Hi Guys,
Thank you Trevor for your interest
Regards



2014-07-10 15:48 GMT+01:00 Trevor Woerner <trevor.woerner@linaro.org>:

> On 07/10/14 09:05, Gnichi Mohamed wrote:
> > I resolved this issue by redirecting the terminal to xterm instead of
> > konsole or yakuake
> > i added this line to my local.conf
> > OE_TERMINAL = "xterm"
>
> That's great to hear. Would you like to update your email on the Yocto
> mailing list too so that others can benefit from your solution?
>

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Re: configuring kernel for imx233

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Gnichi,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Gnichi Mohamed <gnichimed@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to this world and i am enjoying it for the past week.
> I have the imx233 olinuxino maxi and decider to make a very tiny system for
> it so i choose yocto. The other reason is that i am familiar with gentoo and
> i thought maybe my experience with gentoo could help.
> Well i am on my gentoo and i successfully built core-image-minimal with some
> additional packages and i want to configure and recompile the kernel. so i
> did
> bitbake -c menuconfig linux-fslc
> but some exception about python and other things that i couldn't follow.
> Here is the exceptions http://pastebin.com/CBcLX1j1
> I have  Gentoo x86_64,python2.7

Besides the information Trevor has asked, in his reply, I'd like to
bring up the point that Yocto Project is not /tested/ in Gentoo.

This does not mean it won't work. I use Yocto Project in Debian Sid
(which is also not supported) and it works fine (most of time).

Back to Gentoo; it seems there is a doc[1] where people document some
pitfalls they overcome when using Gentoo as a host. It may be worth a
look and check if all is covered.

1. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Yocto

Another alternative is to try to use the BuildTools SDK[2] which is
offered as a workaround for non-supported host systems.

2. https://www.yoctoproject.org/download/yocto-project-16-buildtools-sdk

I hope it helps,

-- 
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Re: configuring kernel for imx233

[Gnichi Mohamed]

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Hello Otavio
Thanks for the reply!
I have a question, maybe it will sound silly :)
I want to downgrade the 3.14 kernel i am using on my minimal installation
core-image-minimal to 3.12 versions which worked for me before.
Can i specify the kernel version or any other package version?
How to do it?

Cordially

Gnichi M


2014-07-11 18:01 GMT+01:00 Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>:

> Hello Gnichi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Gnichi Mohamed <gnichimed@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am new to this world and i am enjoying it for the past week.
> > I have the imx233 olinuxino maxi and decider to make a very tiny system
> for
> > it so i choose yocto. The other reason is that i am familiar with gentoo
> and
> > i thought maybe my experience with gentoo could help.
> > Well i am on my gentoo and i successfully built core-image-minimal with
> some
> > additional packages and i want to configure and recompile the kernel. so
> i
> > did
> > bitbake -c menuconfig linux-fslc
> > but some exception about python and other things that i couldn't follow.
> > Here is the exceptions http://pastebin.com/CBcLX1j1
> > I have  Gentoo x86_64,python2.7
>
> Besides the information Trevor has asked, in his reply, I'd like to
> bring up the point that Yocto Project is not /tested/ in Gentoo.
>
> This does not mean it won't work. I use Yocto Project in Debian Sid
> (which is also not supported) and it works fine (most of time).
>
> Back to Gentoo; it seems there is a doc[1] where people document some
> pitfalls they overcome when using Gentoo as a host. It may be worth a
> look and check if all is covered.
>
> 1. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Yocto
>
> Another alternative is to try to use the BuildTools SDK[2] which is
> offered as a workaround for non-supported host systems.
>
> 2. https://www.yoctoproject.org/download/yocto-project-16-buildtools-sdk
>
> I hope it helps,
>
> --
> Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
> http://www.ossystems.com.br        http://code.ossystems.com.br
> Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854            Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750
>

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Re: configuring kernel for imx233

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Gnichi Mohamed <gnichimed@gmail.com> wrote:
...
> I want to downgrade the 3.14 kernel i am using on my minimal installation
> core-image-minimal to 3.12 versions which worked for me before.
> Can i specify the kernel version or any other package version?
> How to do it?

You can add a linux-gnichi recipe for you and use whatever fits your
needs. Then make 'your BSP' layer and make your machine variant to use
the provider.

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