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

Daniel Sangorrin
2017-07-10T23:36:34Z

Hi Jan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Kiszka [mailto:jan.kiszka at siemens.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 7:40 PM
> To: Daniel Sangorrin; cip-dev at lists.cip-project.org
> Subject: Re: [cip-dev] Project-X (minimal root filesystem) : rewrite and renesas iwg20m board support
>
> On 2017-07-07 10:50, Daniel Sangorrin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been working on a minimal root filesystem made with "deby".
> > The code is here and it includes BSP meta layers for qemux86-64, Beaglebone black,
> > Renesas iwg20m board and CycloneV.
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/cip-playground/project-x/tree/master/deby
> >
> > The meta-cip-common layer is where we put the packages that will be included
> > for all targets. The BSP meta-layers contain settings related to the architecture of
> > the processor, and Linux/u-boot configuration.
> >
> > Currently, I have tested qemux86-64 and Renesas iwg20m. Both of them worked fine
> > so in the next step I will try to run tests on them using B at D.
> > # Beaglebone should work fine, but I haven't tested it yet.
> >
> > For Cyclone V, I need a kernel repository.
> > Koguchi-san: could you create it on https://gitlab.com/cip-playground/linux-cip-cyclonev
> >
> > Finally, for U-boot I need repositories to fetch the sources.
> > Should we have separate repositories for each board? For example:
> > https://gitlab.com/cip-playground/u-boot-iwg20m
> > https://gitlab.com/cip-playground/u-boot-cyclonev
>
> Nice work! Maybe I find the time to model a binary Debian variant as
> well, using Isar [1] - ideally prior to DebConf.

Cool. By the way, I put all of the layers under /deby so that you could
create the isar version under the /isar folder.

>
> 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

Thanks,
Daniel

>
> Jan
>
> [1] https://github.com/ilbers/isar
> [2] https://github.com/siemens/kas
> [3]
> https://github.com/siemens/meta-iot2000/commit/eb4c3df4a62d0e5c32c74082e4c5c467627b9a84