[poky] Incorrect startup warning on ARM targets

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue May 3 16:12:24 PDT 2011


On (03/05/11 16:07), Gary Thomas wrote:
> When building for an ARM target, you may see this error:
>   /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr is not <= 65536. This will cause problems with qemu so please fix the value (as root)
> 
> This is a show-stopper; bitbake refuses to run until it's fixed.
> However, I don't believe it is useful or required any longer.  From
> my understanding, it was there in the past because QEMU for ARM didn't
> work correctly unless this system parameter was set as indicated.  That
> was when QEMU was being used during the build to create localization
> data.  This is no longer being done and QEMU is not used during the
> build process.
> 
> Perhaps we could eliminate this warning or make it conditional
> somehow?  As is, asking the user to make a system-wide setting
> as root for something that's not necessary seems wrong.

This warning is taken care of in qemu-native we build. But I think its
already fixed in upstream oe-core

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