[poky] Poky issues with tune-cortexa8 and a custom machine

[Darren Hart]

On 04/06/2011 08:53 AM, Salvatore Fassi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've created a custom machine to match my hardware.
> This hw is arm based with cortexa8 architecture, so my machine file
> (myarm.conf) uses:
> 
> require conf/machine/include/tune-cortexa8.inc
> 
> For the image I use:
> 
> bitbake poky-image-minimal
> 
> This compiles everything fine but when it starts composing the rootfs by
> installing ipk's I get errors about some missing packages.

Does this also happen if you use rpms instead of ipks? (Set in
local.conf). Can you post the error you receive?

> I've found that the error is due to the fact that poky is compiling two
> work trees:
> 
> build/tmp/work/myarm-poky-linux-gnueabi
> 
> and
> 
> build/tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi

This is normal, there are machine packages and architecture packages,
and shouldn't cause a problem with installation.

--
Darren

> 
> And the missing ipk's are in the armv7a tree!
> 
> I've also noticed that the armv7a "target" definition is inside
> tune-cortexa8.inc...
> So...what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> best regards
> 
> Salvo
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel