[cip-dev] Project-X (minimal root filesystem) : rewrite and renesas iwg20m board support

[daniel.sangorrin@toshiba.co.jp (Daniel Sangorrin)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Kiszka [mailto:jan.kiszka at siemens.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 3:42 PM
> To: Daniel Sangorrin; cip-dev at lists.cip-project.org
> Cc: 'kas-devel'
> Subject: Re: [cip-dev] Project-X (minimal root filesystem) : rewrite and renesas iwg20m board support
> 
> On 2017-07-11 08:34, Daniel Sangorrin wrote:
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jan Kiszka [mailto:jan.kiszka at siemens.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 3:20 PM
> >> To: Daniel Sangorrin; cip-dev at lists.cip-project.org
> >> Cc: kas-devel
> >> Subject: Re: [cip-dev] Project-X (minimal root filesystem) : rewrite and renesas iwg20m board support
> >>
> >> On 2017-07-11 01:36, Daniel Sangorrin wrote:
> >>>> Btw, instead of having yet another setup.sh, you may want to have a look
> >>>> at kas [2]. There is no release yet (next week, hopefully), but it is
> >>>> fairly mature. Moreover, you can build inside Docker, removing most of
> >>>> the host dependencies. We are using this now with both Yocto and Isar
> >>>> projects, often in layered ways [3] that enable reuse.
> >>>
> >>> Yesterday I managed to build the qemux86-64 meta layer using the following
> >>> kas project configuration. Could you check it please?
> >>>
> >>> https://gitlab.com/cip-playground/project-x/commit/de611ae06040f6e426d3c5d1b77eb20b4af31a19
> >>
> >> Looks good. You should just set version to 0.10 and use yesterday's
> >> release. You can pull the corresponding docker image from
> >> https://hub.docker.com/r/kasproject/, and there should be a pip package
> >> as well soon.
> >
> > That was fast. I was using the next branch and built the Dockerfile included in kas.
> >
> > I had to create a daemon.json to set overlay2 as the storage driver, pass the USER_ID variable,
> 
> We should probably suggest to call "USER_ID=$(id -u) docker run ..." -
> it there a way to achieve this in an easier way? Still learning all this
> docker stuff.

I was using the -e flag:
  docker run -e USER_ID=`id -u $USER` -it kas sh

> > volume mount the project-x folder and manually set the proxy settings (for some reason using
> > build-args didn't work for me).
> 
> Hmm, they should, I'm using them for builds all the time (along with
> corresponding settings for the docker daemon).

Are you sure you didn't set them somewhere else in the docker configuration?
As far as I can see the Dockerfile is not using any ARG instruction at all.

> >> Does it still make a difference to set BB_NUMBER_THREADS and
> >> PARALLEL_MAKE? I'm seeing full CPU usage without it as well. I'm always
> >> looking for reasonable defaults we can set (?=) from kas automatically.
> >> BB_DISKMON_DIRS should likely be included, I was adding it as well already.
> >
> > You know better than me ;)
> > I just checked the latest ref manual and apparently OE automatically sets them up.
> 
> Ah, good to know. The parallel things, or even also DISKMON?

The parallel things.  BB_DISKMON_DIRS seems to be disabled by default.

Thanks,
Daniel

> 
> Jan
> 
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