On Friday 29 May 2015 14:41:37 Trevor Woerner wrote: > Hi Ed, > > On 05/27/15 16:32, Ed Sutter wrote: > > This year I have two ongoing iMX6 based linux projects, and may need > > to use a beaglebone > > or RPi for some other small project. > > > > The point of the above detail is that I'd like to backup a bit and > > attempt to use Yocto to > > organize all four of these with one instance of Yocto/Poky. Is that > > practical? > > Yes, that would be a great idea!Have a look at angstrom, for example: > http://www.angstrom-distribution.org. They build one distro for a whole > bunch of different machines. As such, they start with a whole bunch of > different layers, most of which are BSP layers, and then simply do: > > $ MACHINE=<machine> bitbake <image> > > e.g. > > $ MACHINE=raspberrypi2 bitbake angstrom-image > $ MACHINE=beaglebone bitbake angstrom-image > ... > > and build the exact same image for a bunch of different boards/machines. > > They've recently switched to using a repo manifest (which I think is a > great idea): https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/angstrom-manifest > > I've been playing around with doing essentially the same thing for a > "poky" distribution here (but it's still a work-in-progress and not > really ready for prime time yet): https://github.com/twoerner/layer-repos > > > Seems > > > > to me that is the ideal goal of Yocto, but I don't see many BSPs > > listed under the project > > downloads page. > > Take a look here: > http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layers this is > the "master" list of all the "known" layers, recipes, etc. As you can > see, there are quite a few BSP layers.
Furthermore, you can click on the "Machines" tab i.e. http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/machines/ Type in a keyword (or leave the box empty to see all) and hit Search, and you'll see a list of the matching machines provided by all the layers in the index. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
