[yocto] adding all the pieces of WiFi to core-image-minimal
James Abernathy
jfabernathy at outlook.com
Mon Jan 26 07:26:14 PST 2015
> On Jan 26, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>
> On 2015-01-26 06:29, James Abernathy wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2015-01-23 10:24, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>>> I'm starting a project mostly for self-education. I have already done the project using Ubuntu Server 14.04 using a Intel NUC and a Pandaboard as targets. Now I want to see how
>>>> easy it is to move it to Yocto.
>>>>
>>>> Starting with the NUC, I can boot Dizzy 1.7.1 core-image-minimal and core-image-sato, both built with bitbake and not the prebuilt images. However, core-image-minimal doesn't have
>>>> WiFi and core-image-sato does, but I don't need all the GUI stuff. It's a headless application.
>>>>
>>>> So what is recommended; eliminating the GUI from sato or adding wifi and wpa-supplicant, etc to minimal?? Also any pointers to how to do the adding/subtracting would be most helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Once this is working all I have to do is put apache-tomcat, and openjdk-7-jre, then my application.
>>>
>>> We use just iw & wpa-supplicant and set up the configuration
>>> files manually (e.g. the wpa-supplicant configurations).
>>
>> Could you help with a little more details. What I envision is adding an append statement of some kind to local.conf to load in the wireless related files to core-image-minimal, same with openjdk-7-jre and tomcat7, but my first efforts have generated some unintelligible error for me. So that’s why I’m looking for direction on where to start with this.
>
> What was the error you got? I'll bet it was for 'iw' which
> is a package from meta-oe, so you'll need to add that layer
>
> Once you've added the meta-oe layer, you should be able to
> put this line in your local.conf:
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " iw wpa-supplicant”
>
Okay, what I don’t get is the fact that without any additional layers, bitbake core-image-sato builds all the WiFi features I need. bitbake core-image-minimal does not. So I’m thinking that there is some CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL statement that can just add what is needed without extra layers.
I guess it just doesn’t make sense to me right now.
Jim A
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