[poky] Simple recipe for local kernel/git development

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:22 AM, O'donoghue, Bryan
<bryan.odonoghue at intel.com> wrote:
>> Are you working from yocto master ?
>
> Yes.
>
> Our "poky" directory is from a fairly recent yocoto pull ~ 3 weeks
>
>> That being said, if you aren't using meta or aren't using existing BSP
>> patches (and
>> branches), then starting from a yocto kernel tree isn't strictly
>> required. In fact, it
>> probably confuses things.
>
> It confuses me !

It's simple enough, fragments are really handy, as are getting the feature
patches and isolation board changes.

But if this isn't something maintained, or that is something more of a transient
thing, then doing any extra setup can be a pain.

>
>>
>> The tools can work with a korg tree, using a defconfig, etc. In a nice
>> coincidence, I'm
>> completing re-validation of the example korg recipe today.
>
> Yes - assume this is a korg snapshot (it basically is)
>
> All I need to do is to build the korg snapshot from a local git repo and apply a defconfig (it sounds simple when you type it like that)

Easily supported. I'll follow up once my fetches have completed here
and I see that the
recipe builds properly.

Cheers,

Bruce

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