Re: is there a list of yocto-supported dev kits somewhere?

[Sven Ebenfeld <sven.ebenfeld@gmail.com>]

Am 29.08.2014 18:01, schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Rudolf Streif wrote:
> 
>> I think this is a great idea and I volunteer to help with the effort.
>>  
>>   that is kinda what i was after. i realize it's an open-ended
>> request, but it would be great if there was a list of "recommended"
>> dev kits representing various architectures/processors that people new
>> to YP could purchase for experimentation, *knowing* that those dev
>> kits had a YP build that would work out of the box. not necessarily
>> technically complete, but that it would just boot and let them start
>> playing.
>>
>> The "work out of the box" part is the tricky one. Unfortunately,
>> many YP BSP layers do not include instructions on what to do after
>> the build has completed. If you don't know what to do with boot
>> loader and kernel images, flattened device tree files, root file
>> system archives and images then you are at a loss. Commonly the
>> boards also require a special boot media partitioning and the like.
> 
>   exactly true, but without that final bit of information, i contend
> that the YP build is utterly useless unless the developer is told what
> to do with the final image objects.
> 
>> While this type of info should be in the BSP readme files I think it
>> would be good to have step by step instructions that gets one from
>> setting up the build environment to building and creating bootable
>> media for each board.
> 
>   and those step-by-step instructions don't need to be terribly
> verbose. remember, you're not trying to explain how to use YP; you're
> simply summarizing what it takes to get it running on a particular dev
> kit. all of that should fit on a single page at most.
> 

Robert Nelson has a good collection for ARM-Devkits in his eewiki:
https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/Home Maybe that could be a good
starting point.

> rday
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