From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC84759C7 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 16:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id t74GK2DT018800 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Marks-MacBook-Pro-2.local (172.25.36.230) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.235.1; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:20:02 -0700 To: Juro Bystricky , , References: <1438634128-4347-1-git-send-email-juro.bystricky@intel.com> From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems Message-ID: <55C0E631.7070703@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:20:01 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1438634128-4347-1-git-send-email-juro.bystricky@intel.com> Cc: richard.purdie@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support for VirtualBox guest additions X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:20:05 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/3/15 3:35 PM, Juro Bystricky wrote: > In order to support VirtualBox guest additions, kernel headers need to be present > in the VM. I am aware we already have two packages/recipes that are somewhat similar > (kernel-devsrc.bb, linux-libc-headers), but none of them is suitable for this purpose. > Besides the kernel headers, some additional files (scripts, Makefiles, .config, etc) > are also required. linux-libc-headers is only for building applications. kernel-devsrc is for building modules on the target. What do these specific modules need that are not present in kernel-devsrc? (I really don't want 'yet another' confusing package added to the system.) > The new recipe "kernel-headers.bb" can in principle be used by other images as well. > It is not limited to the Build Appliance and hence is not a part of the Build Appliance > recipe. I think kernel-headers is a bad name for a package. It could be confusing. --Mark > Juro Bystricky (2): > kernel-headers: linux kernel headers > build-appliance-image: support for VirtualBox guest addtions > > .../README_vbox_guest_additions.txt | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > .../images/build-appliance-image_12.0.1.bb | 4 +- > meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-headers.bb | 66 ++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image/README_vbox_guest_additions.txt > create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-headers.bb >