On 2015-04-29 09:20 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 04/29/2015 08:38 AM, Parthiban Kandasamy wrote:
>> i am using beagleboard-xm like board for my custom use. for my
>> development i am using yocto-dora-1.5 as bsp and kernel-2.6.32(i
>> downgraded).
>> while bitbaking kernel, i got error as follows:
>>
>> Log data follows:
>> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_kernel_checkout
>> | Reinitialized existing Git repository in
>> /home/parthiban/UliveSytems/Parthiban/CODE/OpenSource/BSP/beagleboard-dora-10.0.0/BeagleBuild/tmp/work/beagleboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/2.6.32-r0/linux-2.6.32/.git/
>> | On branch standard/base
>> | nothing to commit, working directory clean
>> | ERROR. The branch 'meta' is required and was not
>> | found. Ensure that the SRC_URI points to a valid linux-yocto
>> | kernel repository
>> | WARNING:
>> /home/parthiban/UliveSytems/Parthiban/CODE/OpenSource/BSP/beagleboard-dora-10.0.0/BeagleBuild/tmp/work/beagleboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/2.6.32-r0/temp/run.do_kernel_checkout.32588:1
>> exit 1 from
>> | exit 1
>> | ERROR: Function failed: do_kernel_checkout (log file is located at
>> /home/parthiban/UliveSytems/Parthiban/CODE/OpenSource/BSP/beagleboard-dora-10.0.0/BeagleBuild/tmp/work/beagleboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/2.6.32-r0/temp/log.do_kernel_checkout.32588)
>>
>> due to this error i thought error can be cleared if kernel fetched from
>> yocto git repository, but i cat get from there, so how do i get
>> kernel-2.6.32 for yocto project.
>
> There isn't a released 2.6.32 linux-yocto version, so if you
> really want that old version, you'd need to create a linux-yocto-custom
> recipe for the version (unless that is what you already did).
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> --
>> thanks and regards,
>> parthiban
>> +919790329795
>>
>>
>
The only reason to use such a old kernel is for one of two reasons in my
experience either
it's on custom hardware and written by a vendor supporting that hardware or
people want to
run a long term supported kernel. I am wondering of the two which one are you
under Parthiban.
Nick
--
_______________________________________________
yocto mailing list
yocto@yoctoproject.org
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
