> On Jan 26, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote: > > On 2015-01-26 06:29, James Abernathy wrote: >> >>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Gary Thomas <g...@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 > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Gary Thomas | Consulting for the > MLB Associates | Embedded world > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
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