[Angstrom-devel] AM1808

[Michael Schnell]

On 07/19/2011 12:19 PM, David Abdurachmanov wrote:
> For installing additional packages I would suggest you building it yourself and installing on machine: opkg install<package_name.ipk>
opkg did load the .ipg files, but when trying to install them I get:

root at da850-omapl138-evm:~# ls -l ppp*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1118 May 15 07:59 
ppp-dialin_0.1-r7.6_all.ipk
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       146258 May 15 07:59 
ppp_2.4.3-r9.6_armv5te.ipk
root at da850-omapl138-evm:~# opkg install ppp_2.4.3-r9.6_armv5te.ipk
Collected errors:
  * gz_open: fork: Cannot allocate memory.
  * pkg_init_from_file: Failed to extract control file from 
ppp_2.4.3-r9.6_armv5te.ipk.



> OpenEmbedded (OE) metadata is used for cross-compiling packages and building kernel, u-boot, x-load, rootfs images. Now they have changes directory structure, to oe-core, meta-oe, and of course there is Angstrom meta layer. There should some instructions how to combine every layer and setup Bitbake to build up-to-date Angstrom images and packages.
As there is nothing relevant on this device, I could start with a 
completely new installation from the sources. But right now I did not 
look for instructions on how to do this.
> As I remember all modules are build-in into kernel, that's why there is no external ones. In other words, kernel doesn't depend on rootfs image (I think).
I see.
> You can easily change kernel without changing any files on rootfs and vice versa.
Because of the said memory problem, I suppose I can't unpack a Kernel 
package....
> I hope this answered at least some of the questions.
Thanks a lot !!!
-Michael