[poky] Poky on "standard" PC

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/24/2011 03:54 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 04:39 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 05:05 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I wanted to try Poky on a spare laptop, so I went looking
>>> for an appropriate configuration to build.
>>>
>>> From 'README.hardware' (last updated 2010-12-16), I read:
>>> Poky Boot CD (bootcdx86)
>>> ========================
>>>
>>> The Poky boot CD iso images are designed as a demonstration of the Poky
>>> environment and to show the versatile image formats Poky can generate. It will
>>> run on Pentium2 or greater PC style computers. The iso image can be
>>> burnt to CD and then booted from.
>>>
>>> When I tried it (it's also listed in the default local.conf),
>>> I got this error:
>>> Please set TARGET_ARCH directly, or choose a MACHINE or DISTRO that does so.
>>> Please set a valid MACHINE in your local.conf
>>>
>>> There seems to be no machine named 'bootcd*' anywhere :-(
>>>
>>> What should I be using?
>>
>> bootcdx86 was superceeded by the -live images. I'd suggest using the
>> qemux86 or atom-pc machines and building a -live image, dd that to a usb
>> stick and boot that on the laptop. An iso format image is also generated
>> that can be placed onto a CD.
>
> It will have to be atom-pc as qemu doesn't provide live images (last I checked, a few weeks back).

Sadly, this doesn't build :-(  Failed in compile_perf, log attached.

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