[meta-ti] building Yocto for Pandaboard

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:12:21AM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-02-09 09:59, Philip Balister wrote:
> >On 02/09/2012 08:36 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >>On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:14AM -0500, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> >>>  On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:16 PM, William Mills<wmills at ti.com>  wrote:
> >>>>As Gary said there has not been too many end user questions on meta-ti yet.
> >>>
> >>>  All I care about is meta-ti as that is what all our products are based
> >>>  on. I've been watching subject for a while now trying to discern all
> >>>  the issues and make a wise choice.
> >>
> >>Brian,
> >>
> >>>  I'm wanting to switch from Arago to whatever TI supports next as I
> >>>  supply the rest of our development team with tools and images that
> >>>  they build applications on for our products and I can't jerk them
> >>>  around changing distros.
> >>
> >>As you are aware, Arago is not going away - there is work going on in
> >>meta-arago layer to update/port it to the new Yocto infrastructure.
> >>
> >>Arago/meta-arago is still going to be the official platform distribution for
> >>TI SDK products. But, a separate meta-ti layer was created early in the
> >>process to detach and unify the BSP layer and allow people to use TI hardware
> >>with different distributions. And that's actually part of the problem, as
> >>distributions like religions conflict with each other in a single layer... :)
> >>
> >
> >Denys, from my point of view, there are two issues we need to solve:
> >
> >1) Defining the meta-ti toolchain dependencies. Angstrom uses gcc-4.5
> >for various reasons. Will the TI programs work against all gcc versions
> >available from oe-core/meta-oe?
> 
> I've had good luck with the meta-ti layer + Poky (oe-core & meta-yocto).
> I have my own kernels (for other OMAP boards that are not mainline), so
> I don't use the meta-ti kernel recipes, but I do use much of the rest,
> including the DSP bits.

Can you elaborate on what your custom kernels are based on? Thanks.

-- 
Denys