Hello! Generally speaking, at the point when we get to working with boards we are needing to interact with the outside world so we have to run on the target hardware. Once U-Boot (or equivalent) is up

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Hello, I am trying to get an older meta-layer (meta-maaxboard) that was developed for Sumo to work with Zeus. When I try to build “bitbake core-image-minimal” then the sanity checker gives the followi

JH wrote... The first step is for us to understand what “missing” means? Have you got any mechanism (U-Boot, SD card boot, etc.) that will allow you to mount and look at the contents of the NAND file

Bert wrote... The LCD is a 640x480 pixel TFT which has the NewVision NV3052C controller embedded within it into which we drive the 24bits of RGB colour data along with VSYNC, HSYNC, PIXCLK from the DI

Hello, I’m not sure whether this is a hardware issue, Linux kernel issue or a Yocto issue but as some of the finest minds are on the mailing lists I figured it was a good place to start! Enough flatte

I wrote... So, do_fetch() is a Python function and you can’t run shell commands in it. That is fine, I have let it do its thing to initialise the git repository and moved my custom commands into a do_

Quentin wrote... Unfortunately, there are other files in the same directory that can’t be checked out. Looking at that documentation, I have added the “nocheckout=1” option to the git definition in SR

Hello, I have a private git repo on our GitLab server that contains a bunch of source files that came as part of a commercial product and the final binary executable is also stored there using “git lf

Konrad wrote… I was trying to follow the example of the meta-freescale layer which has both .bb and .bbappend files within dynamic layers. Having thought about it some more I realise that it could jus

Hello, I have created a new dynamic layer within my projects custom meta-layer and have added a new recipe to it. When I try to build the image it tells me that nothing RPROVIDES the recipe and if I t

Hello, I’m having a Friday, brain-fade moment. I want to define a variable within the wpa_supplicant.bbappend file: WPA_GROUP_NAME = value This value needs to be propagated into the wpa_supplicant.con

Quentin wrote... There are a lot of paths that it searched in for the file. I’ve moved the file in the file system changed the value of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_mx6 from: FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_mx6 :=

Hello! I am trying to add a custom asound.state file into my Zeus based i.MX6 image. I have created a custom .bbappend file with the following contents: FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_mx6 := "${THISDIR}/${PN

Mauro wrote... Switching to the ‘$(openssl …)’ form has worked, even using the ${ROOT_PASSWORD} variable. Thanks for your help! -Andy.

Mauro wrote... I tried this out on a build that I am working on for which I needed to add a root password and to create a non-root user with a password. If I use: EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS += "usermod -p `op

Carlos wrote... It is the same. I have been testing with http://fabricjs.com//animation and https://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/canvas/ and in all circumstances I see 10-12fps. The

Hello, Broadening this out to the Freescale and Yocto mailing lists to see if any one has any answers… We are using Cog and WPE Webkit on an i.MX6 Solo based board with a user interface that is based

I wrote... Ignore that, I deleted the directory and tried again and it is OK now! -Andy.

Maciej wrote... I have been using the default one (sdimage-bootpart.wks)? I have created a “wic” directory in my custom layer and copied sdimage-bootpart.wks into it as sdimage-project.wks without mak

Hello, I am working on a custom platform where U-Boot will be programmed into an SPI NOR flash device and the ext4 file systems will be in a removable microSD card. The Linux kernel itself will be sto