Re: [PATCH 1/1] meta-sugarbay: Change build instructions in README to use BSP tarball


David Stewart
 

Thanks, Tom. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Zanussi, Tom
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:43 AM
To: Rifenbark, Scott M; Stewart, David C; yocto@...
Cc: Zanussi, Tom
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] meta-sugarbay: Change build instructions in README to
use BSP tarball

From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...>

Change the build instructions to use BSP tarballs instead of git clones. The git
clone info remains as a mentioned alternative.

Fixes [YOCTO #1103].

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...>
---
meta-sugarbay/README | 21 ++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta-sugarbay/README b/meta-sugarbay/README index
bcc46c2..7899205 100644
--- a/meta-sugarbay/README
+++ b/meta-sugarbay/README
@@ -17,17 +17,11 @@ III. Booting the images in /binary I. Building the meta-
sugarbay BSP layer =======================================

-For each BSP in the 'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple -branches,
one corresponding to each major release starting with -'laverne' (0.90), in
addition to the latest code which tracks the -current master.
-
In order to build an image with BSP support for a given release, you -need to
check out the 'meta-intel' branch corresponding to the release -you're
building against e.g. to build for laverne (0.90), check out -the 'laverne'
branch of both poky and 'meta-intel'.
+need to download the corresponding BSP tarball from the 'Board Support
+Package (BSP) Downloads' page of the Yocto Project website.

-Having done that, and assuming you cloned the 'meta-intel' repository
+Having done that, and assuming you extracted the BSP tarball contents
at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can build a sugarbay image by
adding the location of the meta-sugarbay layer to bblayers.conf e.g.:
@@ -47,6 +41,15 @@ At the end of a successful build, you should have a live
image that you can boot from a USB flash drive (see instructions on how to
do that below, in the section 'Booting the images from /binary').

+As an alternative to downloading the BSP tarball, you can also work
+directly from the meta-intel git repository. For each BSP in the
+'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple branches, one corresponding
+to each major release starting with 'laverne' (0.90), in addition to
+the latest code which tracks the current master. Instead of extracting
+a BSP tarball at the top level of your yocto build tree, you can
+equivalently check out the appropriate branch from the meta-intel
+repository at the same location.
+

II. Booting the images in /binary
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