From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 65E09E00992; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 08:54:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -5.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, high * trust * [135.245.210.22 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from smtp-fr.alcatel-lucent.com (fr-hpgre-esg-01.alcatel-lucent.com [135.245.210.22]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 315D3E0096A for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 08:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from us70tusmtp1.zam.alcatel-lucent.com (unknown [135.5.2.63]) by Websense Email Security Gateway with ESMTPS id 37141DE1165F0; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 15:53:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from umail.lucent.com (umail.ndc.lucent.com [135.3.40.61]) by us70tusmtp1.zam.alcatel-lucent.com (GMO) with ESMTP id t51Frol2007645 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 11:53:51 -0400 Received: from [135.222.138.133] (Ed-PC.mh.lucent.com [135.222.138.133]) by umail.lucent.com (8.13.8/TPES) with ESMTP id t51FrmKl018828; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 10:53:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <556C7F78.3080002@alcatel-lucent.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:51:20 -0400 From: Ed Sutter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton , Trevor Woerner References: <556629F2.20605@alcatel-lucent.com> <5568B2E1.2000507@gmail.com> <1795848.uj7DDzVjdK@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1795848.uj7DDzVjdK@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: getting started... X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:54:12 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/31/2015 8:16 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Friday 29 May 2015 14:41:37 Trevor Woerner wrote: >> Hi Ed, >> >> On 05/27/15 16:32, Ed Sutter wrote: >>> This year I have two ongoing iMX6 based linux projects, and may need >>> to use a beaglebone >>> or RPi for some other small project. >>> >>> The point of the above detail is that I'd like to backup a bit and >>> attempt to use Yocto to >>> organize all four of these with one instance of Yocto/Poky. Is that >>> practical? >> Yes, that would be a great idea!Have a look at angstrom, for example: >> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org. They build one distro for a whole >> bunch of different machines. As such, they start with a whole bunch of >> different layers, most of which are BSP layers, and then simply do: >> >> $ MACHINE= bitbake >> >> e.g. >> >> $ MACHINE=raspberrypi2 bitbake angstrom-image >> $ MACHINE=beaglebone bitbake angstrom-image >> ... >> >> and build the exact same image for a bunch of different boards/machines. >> >> They've recently switched to using a repo manifest (which I think is a >> great idea): https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/angstrom-manifest >> >> I've been playing around with doing essentially the same thing for a >> "poky" distribution here (but it's still a work-in-progress and not >> really ready for prime time yet): https://github.com/twoerner/layer-repos >> >>> Seems >>> >>> to me that is the ideal goal of Yocto, but I don't see many BSPs >>> listed under the project >>> downloads page. >> Take a look here: >> http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layers this is >> the "master" list of all the "known" layers, recipes, etc. As you can >> see, there are quite a few BSP layers. > Furthermore, you can click on the "Machines" tab i.e. > > http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/machines/ > > Type in a keyword (or leave the box empty to see all) and hit Search, and > you'll see a list of the matching machines provided by all the layers in the > index. > > Cheers, > Paul > Trevor & Paul, Ok, thanks much. I'll dig into this more now. By the way, the page that gave me the impression there were very few BSPs is this: https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/bsps Clicking on "Board Support Packages" and using and for "YP Core Release" and "Processor Family" respectively. -- Ed Sutter Alcatel-Lucent Technologies -- Bell Laboratories Phone: 908-582-2351 Email: ed.sutter@alcatel-lucent.com