[poky] Several noob's problems:

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-08-21 12:49, Przemek Ogorzałek wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've got some problems with using Poky and I couldn't find any solutions in documentation or wiki, so I hope that someone will be able to help me. Some questions might sound
> stupid, but I've got almost zero experience with embedded hardware, and even some obvious things are a mystery to me.
>
> Question one:
>
> There is an excellent instruction of booting the device over network, but I need to download the image directly to device. How do I do that?

It would depend partly on what sort of storage you have on your target.
Some details might help provide better answers.

What I do is boot a specially configured target image which knows how to
download the final image and move/install it onto the target.

> Question two:
>
> I have installed the Eclipse plug-in, but it requires running "bitbake meta-ide-support" to build toolchain. Is there any way to use pre-build tarballs from
> http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/downloads/yocto-1.0/toolchain/i686/ ?
>
> I have written in another mail (Subject: "glibc building problem") why I can't simply create my own toolchain (compilation problems).

Toolchains and Poky have quite an entangled history.  My experience is it's
best [easier ] to just use the defaults and let Poky build what it wants.

> Question three:
>
> As I understand, to customize my Poky, I have to edit recipes (or write my own). There are plenty of them however in meta directory, and finding a pattern among them is rather
> difficult. Is there any sort of wizard (I mean something like "make menuconfig" during normal kernel compilation) for it, or I have to study meta directory?
>
> I use Poky 5.0.1 on 32-bit host with Fedora 15 and my target is PowerPC.

You might try the cutting edge (check the master branch out via git).  I don't
have any troubles building for PowerPC with it, even on Fedora 15.

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