[yocto] CEWG project BOFS in Dusseldorf (today)

2014-10-17 Thread Tim Bird
n source code upstream. (This last one is a follow-on from my talk at ELCE earlier this week) If you're here in Dusseldorf and are interested in any of these project, feel free to come. -- Tim Bird Senior Software Engineer, Sony Mobile Architecture Group Ch

[yocto] Patch version gotchas (was Re: i think the list of "required software" needs to be clarified)

2013-04-09 Thread Tim Bird
t) Unfortunately, we found that some of our patches were not compatible with this version of patch, and thus found ourselves in a pickle. We now have to switch between patch versions, depending on the project and set of patches we're working on. ===== Tim Bird Archite

[yocto] RFC - integrating target runtime information into a yocto build

2013-01-23 Thread Tim Bird
roach? I'm not expert enough in YP to know the dangers here. I would, however, very much like to make this work reproducible and automated, which is why I have a high interest in doing this in YP. Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgr

Re: [yocto] What is GMAE?

2012-12-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/14/2012 12:45 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 12/14/12 1:46 PM, Burton, Ross wrote: >> On 14 December 2012 19:43, Tim Bird wrote: >>> "If you need GMAE, you should use the bitbake meta-toolchain-gmae command. >>> The resulting installation script when r

[yocto] What is GMAE?

2012-12-14 Thread Tim Bird
ot...) -- Tim ========= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/12/2012 11:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Tim Bird wrote: >> I don't know if the .= with leading bar is the optimal >> way to append on to BBMASK, but it seems fairly straightforward >> to me. I sometimes use the leading ".*" and s

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/12/2012 11:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Tim Bird wrote: > >> On 12/12/2012 11:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> >>> a bit more pedantry, but is there a more complete example of the use >>> of BBMASK than the tri

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Bird
ASK .= "|meta-oe/recipes-graphics" BBMASK .= "|meta-oe/recipes-qt" I don't know if the .= with leading bar is the optimal way to append on to BBMASK, but it seems fairly straightforward to me. I sometimes use the leading ".*" and sometimes not. In my setup it seems to

Re: [yocto] chris larson's cool "bitbake-env" utility

2012-12-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/30/2012 05:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Tim Bird wrote: > >> I put a link to your page on my bitbake cheat sheet page at: >> http://elinux.org/Bitbake_Cheat_Sheet > > as someone who has never bothered to play with any of the UIs and

Re: [yocto] chris larson's cool "bitbake-env" utility

2012-11-29 Thread Tim Bird
> this is going to be more than a little useful in my courses. Yeah - this looks great. I put a link to your page on my bitbake cheat sheet page at: http://elinux.org/Bitbake_Cheat_Sheet = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation S

Re: [yocto] updated wiki page for using yocto to build for beagle xM (rev C)

2012-11-20 Thread Tim Bird
very useful. I put a link to it from my elinux page on Yocto. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = __

Re: [yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/14/2012 01:47 PM, Tim Bird wrote: > On 11/14/2012 11:05 AM, Darren Hart wrote: >> On 11/14/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Bird wrote: >>> On 11/14/2012 10:50 AM, Darren Hart wrote: >>>> runqemu doesn't quite know what to make of poky-tiny :-) Try the following: >&g

Re: [yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/14/2012 11:05 AM, Darren Hart wrote: > On 11/14/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Bird wrote: >> On 11/14/2012 10:50 AM, Darren Hart wrote: >>> runqemu doesn't quite know what to make of poky-tiny :-) Try the following: >>> >>> $ qemu-system-i386 -kernel pat

Re: [yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Bird
mfs didn't. I didn't expect >> any difference in target-side binaries between the two - only some >> changes in the image build steps. >> >> Thanks for the tips. I'll check it out. > > Let me know what you find out. I thought the initramfs had the

Re: [yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Bird
On 11/14/2012 08:48 AM, Darren Hart wrote: > > > On 11/13/2012 05:11 PM, Tim Bird wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using DISTRO=poky-tiny and trying to build: >> $ bitbake core-image-minimal-initramfs >> >> I get the following error trying to compile

[yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

2012-11-13 Thread Tim Bird
ion ... See the attached compile log for details. Has anyone done this recently? Is this one of the supported images for this distro (poky-tiny)? Has anyone seen this type of error before, or can provide some hints of what to check or adjust to fix this? Thanks, -- Tim =====

[yocto] supported IMAGE_FSTYPES

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Bird
apologize if these are newbie questions. Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___ yocto m

[yocto] supported IMAGE_FSTYPES

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Bird
other variables) exist? I apologize if these are newbie questions. Thanks, -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = __

Re: [yocto] The term Package as used in the YP docs

2012-09-28 Thread Tim Bird
27;s sufficient, I > think. (I answered Scott privately by mistake - here's some feedback on-list) I'm in favor of mentioning the history somewhere, because the names do have a 'P' in them, and this is confusing otherwise. Overall, I think the new wording is worthwhile. -- T

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Tim Bird
t's processed by bitbake and made into an busybox binary ipkg or rpm? Or am I just muddying the waters further? BTW, on denzil, I get the following: $ bitbake -s | grep busybox busybox :1.19.4-r2 Note that this includes the version of busybox (the input source ve

Re: [yocto] How does bitbake work

2012-08-21 Thread Tim Bird
t; > do_unpack) > NOTE: package openssl-native-1.0.0i-r0.2: task do_unpack: Succeeded > NOTE: Running task 25 of 706 (ID: 541, > virtual:native:/home/ly/yocto/poky-denzil-7.0.1/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.2.4.bb, > > do_fetch) > NOTE: package quilt-native-0.51-r1: task do

Re: [yocto] Unable to get serial console login prompt - PowerPC 440 Virtex 5 processor

2012-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
instrument the kernel "open" path to see all the files that are being opened during the boot. ldlinux.so should be one of them. The linker should then be trying to load the other libraries needed by the program. This should also result in open calls (or possibly mmap calls).

Re: [yocto] Manually fetching files (and disabling the sanity-checker)

2012-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 07/18/2012 05:22 PM, Saul Wold wrote: > On 07/18/2012 04:50 PM, Tim Bird wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've given up trying to work around Sony's firewall. After repeated attempts >> I still can't get any 'git:'-based URLS to work through the fir

[yocto] Manually fetching files (and disabling the sanity-checker)

2012-07-18 Thread Tim Bird
o extract the tarballs from a build appliance image? Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. -- Tim ===== Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff E

Re: [yocto] denzil firewall problems

2012-07-17 Thread Tim Bird
On 07/16/2012 08:56 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Tim Bird wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to take Denzil out for a spin, and when I do bitbake, from inside >> Sony (behind our corporate firewall) I get this: >> &g

[yocto] denzil firewall problems

2012-07-16 Thread Tim Bird
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Tim P.S. With regards to disabling the checker (as a possible workaround for the problem), I found sanity.conf at poky-denzil-7.0/meta/conf/sanity.conf. I looked at it (and meta/classes/sanity.bbclass) but it's not obvious to me how I would

Re: [yocto] the current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless

2012-06-26 Thread Tim Bird
arified in the entries. I'm not in this category, so if I find some time I'll try to make a few FAQ entries that address the points of confusion I've seen. -- Tim = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer,

Re: [yocto] RFC: poky-tiny: init procedure

2012-06-15 Thread Tim Bird
ed to manually enable each service, and the start sequence, commands and command parameters are obvious from the script. (This is rarely true of init scripts). If anyone has good ideas or other experience for the init sequence for highly customized, resource-constrained products, I'd like

Re: [yocto] RFC: poky-tiny: init procedure

2012-06-15 Thread Tim Bird
stem that is more heavy-weight than this. There are plenty of other choices. I realize you said that with a smiley, so I'm not trying to be dismissive or harsh, but I do think that if you want the features of some other init system, then the right answer is to use them, and not complain a

Re: [yocto] RFC: poky-tiny: init procedure

2012-06-13 Thread Tim Bird
On 6/13/2012 5:33 PM, Darren Hart wrote: For those of you using poky-tiny or are interested in building very very small systems, I would appreciate your thoughts here. Currently poky-tiny images will boot and run /bin/sh, which results in error messages to the console about being unable to open

Re: [yocto] RFC: User configurable recipe features

2011-10-12 Thread Tim Bird
I'd like to see the >200k bzImage increase for ipv4 come > down. In addition to that, I'm hoping to take a closer look at dynamic > memory usage in the Linux kernel for small systems. I have some patches for monitoring slab allocations that are helpful for this (also somet

Re: [yocto] RFC: User configurable recipe features

2011-10-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 10/12/2011 09:59 AM, Darren Hart wrote: > On 10/11/2011 04:49 PM, Tim Bird wrote: >> On 10/10/2011 11:41 AM, Darren Hart wrote: >>> As part of working on meta-tiny, I've come across a need (want?) to >>> present users with the ability to select some set of featu

Re: [yocto] RFC: User configurable recipe features

2011-10-11 Thread Tim Bird
you tell me more about meta-tiny? this is the first I've heard about this (sorry if discussion went by on the mailing list and I missed it), and I'm very interested. I'm currently doing some size-related work for Sony (including some work to support 4K stacks). Thanks, -- Tim ==

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-04 Thread Tim Bird
On 08/04/2011 01:22 PM, Joshua Lock wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 11:51 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: >> The only thing that looks suspicious to me is: >> >> ERROR: ld.so: object 'libpseudo.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: >> ignored. > > This is conc

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-04 Thread Tim Bird
On 08/03/2011 06:44 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 05:08:43 PM Tim Bird wrote: >> | from cairo-scaled-font-private.h:45, >> | from cairoint.h:380, >> | >> | from cairo-arc.c:37: >> | cairo-

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 8/3/2011 5:33 PM, Stewart, David C wrote: The current release is http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/downloads/poky/poky-bernard-5.0.1.tar.bz2 - so I would hope you might try 5.0.1 instead of 5.0. OK - I'll see if I have time to try again. I was following the instructions at: http://www.y

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 8/3/2011 5:50 PM, Joshua Lock wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 17:40 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 17:08 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure where to report this, but I tried again to build Yocto, without success. I downloaded poky-bernard-4.0.tar.bz2, and fol

Re: [yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
On 08/03/2011 05:08 PM, Tim Bird wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure where to report this, but I tried again to build > Yocto, without success. > > I downloaded poky-bernard-4.0.tar.bz2, and followed instructions > for installing it. Silly me. poky-b

[yocto] Build failure on recent yocto download

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Bird
'asm' or '__attribute__' before '_cairo_xlib_display_mutex' | In file included from cairo-mutex-private.h:62:0, | from cairoint.h:2519, | from cairo-analysis-surface.c:37: | cairo-mutex-list-private.h:39:1: error: expected '='

[yocto] Build success (mostly), disk space a little huge

2010-12-16 Thread Tim Bird
i586-poky-linux 3.5Gi686-linux 4.6Gqemux86-poky-linux This seems a bit high? Is this normal? -- Tim ===== Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___

[yocto] Still having build problems - what version of python is required?

2010-12-02 Thread Tim Bird
to get a host distro this old to build poky? -- Tim ===== Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment = ___ yocto mailing list yoc

[yocto] fetch problem during build

2010-11-30 Thread Tim Bird
o, I presume I could substitute my own kernel source, if I wanted to? Maybe some pointers about how to do what would be good as well. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Tim ========= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony N