[yocto] is there a rationale for YP using sysvinit as default init manager?

2019-11-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
and so on. is there any short answer to give to that question? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

[yocto] how to generate an SPDX "notice file" from a build?

2019-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
peration before trying to cram it into petalinux. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.

Re: [yocto] Defining group of machines

2019-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 3 May 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2019, Westermann, Oliver wrote: > > > We’ve a product group with different devices, each having their > > machine-conf, eg > > > > Device_a > > > > Device_a_mini > > > > Devic

Re: [yocto] Defining group of machines

2019-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
m pretty sure MACHINEOVERRIDES is what you want. let me see if i can find where i did that once. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [yocto] ASSUME_PROVIDED, cmake-native and why cmake is subsequently not found?

2019-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 08:05 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > /home/rpjday/oe/builds/zedboard/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/cmake- > > native/3.12.2-r0/build/Bootstrap.cmk/cmake: > > /home/rpjday/oe/builds/zedboard/tmp/sysroots-uninat

Re: [yocto] [PATCH] bsp-guide: replace meta-intel with meta-xilinx as container layer

2019-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
g that can be specified in a bblayers.conf file. so i'm not sure *how* you would describe, for example, meta-openembedded. i'm sure i'm overthinking this. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [yocto] [PATCH] bsp-guide: replace meta-intel with meta-xilinx as container layer

2019-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 2 May 2019, Scott Rifenbark wrote: > Great, thanks! > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:21 AM akuster wrote: > > On 5/2/19 6:19 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > As meta-intel is no longer a container layer, use meta-xilinx as > > an example instead

Re: [yocto] [PATCH] bsp-guide: replace meta-intel with meta-xilinx as container layer

2019-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
much snipping ... On Thu, 2 May 2019, Scott Rifenbark wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM akuster wrote: > > > On 5/2/19 6:19 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > As meta-intel is no longer a container layer, use meta-xilinx as > > an example inst

Re: [yocto] ASSUME_PROVIDED, cmake-native and why cmake is subsequently not found?

2019-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 08:05 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > ASSUME_PROVIDED += "cmake-native" > > This is a bad idea as we patch cmake iirc. ... snip ... > > You would also have to do: > > HOSTT

[yocto] [PATCH] bsp-guide: replace meta-intel with meta-xilinx as container layer

2019-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
As meta-intel is no longer a container layer, use meta-xilinx as an example instead. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml b/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml index 0bb0b68ab..a53ff6bce 100644 --- a/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml +++ b/documentation

[yocto] "meta-intel" layer bad example of a "container layer"

2019-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ng objections, i can send in a patch. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

Re: [yocto] ASSUME_PROVIDED, cmake-native and why cmake is subsequently not found?

2019-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t my next few days will be full of reading. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [yocto] ASSUME_PROVIDED, cmake-native and why cmake is subsequently not found?

2019-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
in many cases, the version that would be built by YP is exactly the same version i already have natively. in other cases, the difference might be a micro-version off. anyway, i probably wouldn't have bothered with this if it weren't for that cmake issue. but let's see where th

Re: [yocto] ASSUME_PROVIDED, cmake-native and why cmake is subsequently not found?

2019-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
he host even after setting ASSUME_PROVIDED += "cmake-native" i am assuming that whatever search path is used for "native" tools is extended by the use of ASSUME_PROVIDED -- is that what your patch is addressing? in any event, i've now

[yocto] ASSUME_PROVIDED, cmake-native and why cmake is subsequently not found?

2019-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
than risking breakage down the line as versions change, as long as the host packages work, is there any harm in just taking advantage of them? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Otta

Re: [yocto] m4-mative: "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform!"

2019-04-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019, Burton, Ross wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 11:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > so, to confirm what i thought, this is a bug in gnulib which > > suggests i should dig through the build configuration to see where i > > can, say, set a PREFERRED_VERSION

Re: [yocto] m4-mative: "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform!"

2019-04-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
uration to see where i can, say, set a PREFERRED_VERSION of a newer version of gnulib that no longer has tat bug? or, barring that, just add the appropriate local patch on my end. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

[yocto] m4-mative: "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform!"

2019-04-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
imply say ASSUME_PROVIDED += "m4" for the time being, to avoid having to build it until i know what the proper fix is? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [yocto] m4-mative: "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform!"

2019-04-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > a few months ago, i ran into (and asked about) a failure building > m4-native that you can read here: > > https://yocto.yoctoproject.narkive.com/6KyM5UvS/m4-native-zedboard-please-port-gnulib-fseeko-c-to-your-platform > > fi

[yocto] m4-native, zedboard, "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform"

2018-11-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
spect it affects more targets than just zedboard which is why i'm asking on the general YP list. thoughts? is there a cheap fix for this? i'm about to dive into debugging this, but if someone wants to make my life easy, that'd be great. rday -- ===

Re: [yocto] bbappend extra SRC_URI ignored

2018-06-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
+= "file://nvpmodel.conf " why are you using both a prepend and the "+=" operator on the same line? rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [yocto] Can SRC_URI look in the same place for two different machines?

2018-03-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Giordon Stark wrote: > Right, so the problem for me is that there seems to be two ways to > do this: MACHINEOVERRIDES .= ":machine3" (for 3a, 3b) > > or > > FILESEXTRAPATHS_append_machine3a = "${THISDIR}/files/machine3/" > FILESEXTRAPATHS_append_machine3b = "${THISDIR}/files/m

Re: [yocto] Can SRC_URI look in the same place for two different machines?

2018-03-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 15 March 2018 at 14:07, Giordon Stark wrote: > So for my device trees, I'm finding some files are duplicated. In > particular some of my > dtsi files are going to be the same amongst a few boards we're using, > so I would like > to

Re: [yocto] OpenCV with python3

2018-03-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Peter Balazovic wrote: > Hello all, > I have python module of OpenCV for python 2.7 on my Yocto image adding via > local.conf > > IMAGE_INSTALL_append += “ python-opencv” i know i've harped on this before, but can people please stop combining the constructs "_append" and "

Re: [yocto] bitbake: git and patch problem

2018-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, EXTERNAL van Riel Rob (ENTER, BT-CO/ENG1.1) wrote: > I'm experiencing strange (at least to my eyes) behaviour from > bitbake. My recipe specifies a git repository as the main SRC_URI, > then, in a variant created using an append file adds a patch like > this: > > SRC_URI_append

Re: [yocto] which is the official(?) OE/YP openbmc layer?

2017-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 21 September 2017 at 11:01, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >   colleague just yesterday asked me a couple questions about openbmc, > so i investigated the OE/YP layer, and i'm a bit confused ... the > official OE

Re: [yocto] which is the official(?) OE/YP openbmc layer?

2017-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 21 September 2017 at 11:01, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >   colleague just yesterday asked me a couple questions about openbmc, > so i investigated the OE/YP layer, and i'm a bit confused ... the > official OE

[yocto] which is the official(?) OE/YP openbmc layer?

2017-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ebook/openbmc, implying it's a facebook project, but github also hosts: https://github.com/openbmc can anyone clarify the relationship between those two? if there is any? rday -- ======== Robert

[yocto] is there a summary somewhere of container-based YP solutions?

2017-09-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of YP. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday Lin

Re: [yocto] [qa-tools][PATCH 1/4] poduct/init: Add support for PackageManagement component

2017-07-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
"poduct/init" ? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.

[yocto] a couple bad(?) tags in poky checkout

2017-03-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just listed git tags for poky, and a couple that show up that screw up the ordering: ... yocot-1.4.2 <- yocto-1.4.1 yocto-1.4.2 ... yocto-2.1.2 yocto-2.2 yocto-2.2.1 yocto_1.5_M5.rc8 <- ... rday -- ==== Ro

[yocto] [PATCH][yocto-docs] BSP Guide: Numerous aesthetic tweaks/clarifications

2017-03-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
* Outside of a title, use "BSP layer", not "BSP Layer" * Add details about YP reference boards. * Minor grammatical clarification in places. * Add to even single paragraph notes for consistency. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp

Re: [yocto] Remove a recipe's do_install_append() function in an append file

2017-03-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ce. if one doesn't want all that stuff, *that* is where an append could be used to remove it. i think zsh removing it by default is inappropriate. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario

[yocto] are there any outstanding patches to be applied to BSP Guide?

2017-03-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i know i was working on some tweaks but can't find if i submitted any yet. can anyone verify that what's up under "in progress/latest" is the current version, as git pull'ed from yocto docs? thanks. rday -- =======

Re: [yocto] should a BSP layer *really* ever need additional layers to be functional?

2017-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Josef Holzmayr wrote: > Hi, > > On 23.03.2017 11:35, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i always thought that using nothing more than a BSP layer (plus, of > > course, the underlying OE layers) should allow you to get to the > > command line. is that

[yocto] BSP guide: better example for recursive layer structure than meta-intel?

2017-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
r, nothing recursive about it. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.

[yocto] should a BSP layer *really* ever need additional layers to be functional?

2017-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not true? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedi

[yocto] [PATCH] meta-yocto-bsp: Remove superfluous OVERRIDES in machine conf files

2017-03-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
SION_linux-yocto_genericx86 ?= "4.10%" UBOOT_MACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "MPC8315ERDB_config" Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- i'm hoping i'm not misunderstanding anything here. diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericx86-64.conf b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericx

[yocto] any YP machines or functionality that still require uImage creation?

2017-03-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
es the creation/use of a uImage format? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [yocto] make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'fitImage'. Stop.

2017-03-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Belisko Marek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Belisko Marek wrote: > > > >> Hi Robert, > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Robert P. J. Day > >> wro

Re: [yocto] make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'fitImage'. Stop.

2017-03-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Belisko Marek wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >> > >> i'll start a new thread to focus on just this issue. again, bu

Re: [yocto] make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'fitImage'. Stop.

2017-03-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'll start a new thread to focus on just this issue. again, building > core-image-minimal for mpc8315e-rdb, adding this to local.conf: > > INHERIT += "kernel-fitimage" <-- do i need this l

[yocto] suddenly, bunch of circular dependency errors

2017-03-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to see a list of unbuildable tasks. Identifying dependency loops (this may take a short while)... ERROR: An uncaught exception occurred in runqueue is anyone else seeing this? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[yocto] make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'fitImage'. Stop.

2017-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
L_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE? but if i dump with: $ bitbake -e virtual/kernel i get: # $KERNEL_IMAGETYPES [3 operations] ... snip ... KERNEL_IMAGETYPES="uImage fitImage" and # $KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE # set kernel.bbclass:48 [__anon_81__home_rpjday_oe_dist_layers_poky_meta_classes_kernel_bbclass] # "uImage fitImage&qu

Re: [yocto] missing "whoami" command trying to build FIT image for mpc8315e-rdb ref board

2017-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2017-03-13 12:50, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > trying for the first time to build a FIT image, so started with > > current poky checkout, configured and built for mpc8315e-rdb and > > core-image-minimal, everything wor

[yocto] missing "whoami" command trying to build FIT image for mpc8315e-rdb ref board

2017-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
command in the native sysroot. or am i doing something wrong? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday Link

Re: [yocto] help

2017-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
riously right from the beginning. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitt

[yocto] why is VOLATILE_LOG_DIR mentioned in ref manual when it doesn't exist?

2017-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hat variable. can someone clarify what is happening here? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: Various formatting/clarification adjustments to BSP Guide

2017-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Collection of aesthetic/formatting/clarification fixes to BSP Guide, including: * Adjust some directory names to have trailing slash * Reword some paragraphs for clarity * Add s inside s for consistency and other minor tweaks. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation

[yocto] standards for YP documentation markup?

2017-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
some guidelines. thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

[yocto] occasional confusion in bsp guide, mixing BSP layer name and machine name

2017-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
tingly pedantic, but is there a doc-wide standard for names to be used for stuff like this? otherwise, i'll just make something up to clean this up (assuming, of course, that it needs cleaning and i'm not just hopelessly misreading all of this). rday -- =

Re: [yocto] any rumblings about a newer YP powerpc reference board than mpc8315e-rdb?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
cause it's useless. so who out there is working with powerpc, and what PPC platform would have enough general interest that it would be worth making the YP reference board? or, perhaps (god forbid) there's no actual point in even *having* a powerpc reference board? rday -- =

Re: [yocto] any rumblings about a newer YP powerpc reference board than mpc8315e-rdb?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ave a seizure to suddenly realize they need $500 for a powerpc reference board. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [yocto] any rumblings about a newer YP powerpc reference board than mpc8315e-rdb?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 3 March 2017 at 13:24, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >   it seems of limited value for YP to have a powerpc reference > board, mpc8315e-rdb, that is essentially impossible to > procure. is there any effort being made to look

Re: [yocto] BSP "sub-layer" examples -- better example than meta-intel?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 3 March 2017 at 10:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >   also, not sure how meta-yocto-bsp fits that description. it neither > contains sub-layers, nor is itself a sub-layer of a higher-level > layer. sure, it comes along as

[yocto] any rumblings about a newer YP powerpc reference board than mpc8315e-rdb?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

[yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: Various cleanup/tweaking to BSP Guide

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ot;bsp_name.conf" with "machine.conf" * Add a few more sample components to the BSP layer structure Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml b/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml index 4d0ace0..d81cb46 100644 --- a/documentation/bsp-guide/

[yocto] BSP Guide: what means "bsp_name.conf"?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
onf" refers to as it is. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

[yocto] purpose of "README.sources" file, and why does meta-intel have one?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
vantage of that feature. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: ht

[yocto] BSP "sub-layer" examples -- better example than meta-intel?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
so ... thoughts? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://tw

[yocto] more pedantry: "BSP Layer" versus "BSP layer"?

2017-03-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i can just fold that in with the rest. thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

Re: [yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: kernel-dev, update "3.19" versions to "4.4"

2017-02-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > Update the remaining references to kernel version 3.19 to version 4.4, > restricted to the section "kernel-dev-common.xml". > > I just

Re: [yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: kernel-dev, update "3.19" versions to "4.4"

2017-02-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > Update the remaining references to kernel version 3.19 to > version 4.4, restricted to the section > "kernel-dev-common.xml". > > I

Re: [yocto] kernel-dev manual, section 2.6.2, do tags like "systemtap" exist?

2017-02-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > >   section 2.6.2 refers to how to display changes based on a > tag, and uses the alleged tag name "systemtap" ... do tags > like that even

Re: [yocto] couple questions about kernel-dev manual, section 2.6, "emenlow" branch

2017-02-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > >   still working my way through the kernel-dev manual, and a > couple oddities in section 2.6. > >   first, the example given uses the (alle

[yocto] kernel-dev manual, section 2.6.2, do tags like "systemtap" exist?

2017-02-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
section 2.6.2 refers to how to display changes based on a tag, and uses the alleged tag name "systemtap" ... do tags like that even exist anymore? i see no such tag in my current build directories. rday -- ======== R

[yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: kernel-dev, update "3.19" versions to "4.4"

2017-02-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Update the remaining references to kernel version 3.19 to version 4.4, restricted to the section "kernel-dev-common.xml". Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- if my earlier patch hasn't already been applied, this one can be folded in since it simply adds more "3.19"

[yocto] couple questions about kernel-dev manual, section 2.6, "emenlow" branch

2017-02-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ow do those commands depend on the particular version of the linux-yocto recipe you're using? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca T

[yocto] puzzling instructions in kernel dev manual, section 2.3.1

2017-02-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e preceding command should have been "git add -u" for update mode? or am i just confused? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

[yocto] [PATCH v2] yocto-docs: kernel-dev, Aesthetic/formatting/clarification fixes

2017-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
d-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml index a9aafd3..cb186c9 100644 --- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml +++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml @@ -25,10 +

Re: [yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: Some aesthetic changes to kernel-dev-common.xml

2017-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Hart, Darren wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:08 AM > > To: Yocto discussion list > > Cc: Hart, Darren > > Subject: [PATCH] yocto-do

[yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: Some aesthetic changes to kernel-dev-common.xml

2017-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Small number of aesthetic/visual changes to kernel-dev-common.xml. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- as darren is the author, i'll leave it in his hands to accept/reject any of this. a lot of this is just subtle rewording whenever i think there might be the slightest ambiguity, and

[yocto] [PATCH] yocto-docs: Aesthetic changes to kernel-dev-intro.xml

2017-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
* "sys" filesystem is technically "sysfs" filesystem * "aggregate" already implies together :-) Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-intro.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-intro.xml index 263e500..8de1

Re: [yocto] Section 5.10.6, current YP reference manual, "default working directory"

2017-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 22 February 2017 at 11:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so, *technically*, that claim in the ref manual is not wholly true; > there are still a small number of tasks that use that default > directory. is that a di

[yocto] Section 5.10.6, current YP reference manual, "default working directory"

2017-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that use that default directory. is that a distinction worth making in the reference manual? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitte

Re: [yocto] is there a list somewhere of OE/YP-supported system perf/monitoring tools?

2017-02-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Joshua Lock wrote: > On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 07:06 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > > > > ... snip ... > > > > > blktrace > > > >   without putting any research into knowing precisel

Re: [yocto] is there a list somewhere of OE/YP-supported system perf/monitoring tools?

2017-02-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
mmentary and break them into sub-categories like user space, kernel space and so on. for now, i'll just take more suggestions as to what should be on that list. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day

Re: [yocto] is there a list somewhere of OE/YP-supported system perf/monitoring tools?

2017-02-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Maciej Borzęcki wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > colleague asked me for a list of OE/YP recipes for monitoring system > > performance/resource utilization/profiling, i'm unaware of any single > >

Re: [yocto] is there a list somewhere of OE/YP-supported system perf/monitoring tools?

2017-02-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2017-02-08 07:48, Maciej Borzęcki wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > >   colleague asked me for a

[yocto] is there a list somewhere of OE/YP-supported system perf/monitoring tools?

2017-02-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
* netdata * rrdtool * dstat i'm going to stop there since that's just a sample list. what other recipes should be added to that list that people find spectacularly useful? thanks. rday -- =============

[yocto] where does one find a OE/YP recipe for mod_auth_tkt?

2017-01-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i was looking for this a while ago with no luck ... still interested ... am i just being clueless in not seeing where to get it? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[yocto] how does one stay on top of YP security alerts?

2017-01-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[yocto] has support for MPC8315E-RDB been dropped?

2017-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
eing replaced by a newer powerpc system? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http:

[yocto] questions about KBUILD_DEFCONFIG explanation in kernel-dev manual

2016-12-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e type, and it's armv8, so i'm *assuming* that line would refer to the in-tree file arch/arm64/configs/defconfig, is that right? i think that will do it for now. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[yocto] potentially confusing wordage in kernel dev manual

2016-12-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ds like it's the OE build system that automatically adds a local defconfig file to SRC_URI. does anyone else see the potential confusion in the way that's explained? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

[yocto] in yocto-docs, many tags should properly be tags

2016-12-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
7;t really appropriate. *currently*, there is no difference in the final rendering of these two tags, but one never knows when that might be desirable. obviously, not a high priority if any. rday -- ======== Robert

Re: [yocto] "make html" for yocto-docs fails, "Unknown option -customization.xsl"

2016-12-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > been a while since i've built the docs from scratch, and now: > > $ make html > > Building > > cd ; xsltproc -o .html -customization.xsl .xml; cd .. > Unknown option -customization.xsl > Usage: xsltp

[yocto] "make html" for yocto-docs fails, "Unknown option -customization.xsl"

2016-12-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ck look at how xsltproc has changed lately unless someone else already knows what the fix is. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

[yocto] [PATCH][yocto-docs] Couple aesthetic fixes for Chapter 1, kernel dev manual

2016-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
* "sys" filesystem is technically "sysfs" Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- nothing earth-shattering, just more pedantry. diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-intro.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-intro.xml index 263e500..abc51aa 100644 --- a/

[yocto] suggestions for version controlling multi-layer reproducible builds?

2016-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, so i'm open to suggestions. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday Link

[yocto] should the MPC8315E-RDB be listed at YP BSPs page?

2016-12-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ill the current PowerPC reference board? or how does one interpret that? thanks. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcou

[yocto] is there a newer alternative to tcpflow?

2016-12-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
tive these days? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjda

[yocto] any recommendations for ARM-powered, yocto-based drones?

2016-11-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
runs "Yocto GNU/Linux", but i'd prefer something based on ARM. any pointers? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[yocto] is there an OE/YP equivalent for sos[report]?

2016-11-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
soleted by something better. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

[yocto] any yocto-supported ARM boards out there with BLE/BT?

2016-11-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, and buyable from a major distributor. BLE is not a deal-breaker, just would be nice. suggestions? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [yocto] why do some openstack layer.conf files add classes to BBFILES?

2016-11-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: >   just noticed the following property for a bunch of the openstack > layers at: > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-cloud-services

[yocto] why do some openstack layer.conf files add classes to BBFILES?

2016-11-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
asses/*.bbclass" why is the classes/ directory being appended to BBFILES? i thought the purpose of BBPATH was to contain locations of .conf and .bbclass files. i'm puzzled by the above. rday -- ============ R

[yocto] potentially confusing intro to what is in an SDK (SDK manual)

2016-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
up script in the SDK installation directory. is it possible the author was conflating the installation .sh file, and the environment setup file? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario,

[yocto] SDK manual is not listed on docs page

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i don't see link to SDK manual here: https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/inprogress is that deliberate, or an oversight? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, C

[yocto] what is the proper way to select a persistent /var/log directory?

2016-09-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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