[Angstrom-devel] [beagleboard] Re: angstrom install --

[Graeme Gregory]

On 03/05/2011 09:50, mohit hada wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Koen Kooi<koen at dominion.thruhere.net>wrote:
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>> On 03-05-11 09:06, mohit hada wrote:
>>> Hello All
>>>
>>> Following angstrom link as suggested by Koen
>>> ....http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom
>>>
>>> I have completed
>>> 1)git clone git://git.angstrom-distribution.org/setup-scripts
>>> 2)MACHINE=beagleboard ./oebb.sh update
>>> 3)MACHINE=beagleboard ./oebb.sh bitbake virtual/kernel
>>>
>>> But i have not yet done ...
>>> 4)MACHINE=your_machine ./oebb.sh bitbake base-image
>>> 5)MACHINE=your_machine ./oebb.sh bitbake console-image
>>>
>>>
>>> As i already have an "angstrom image" lying on my sdcard obtained from
>>>> 24 hrs of bitbake from this link
>> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Getting_Started_With_C6Run_On_Beagleboard
>>> ==============================
>>> ============================================
>>>
>>> My purpose to do all this is ..
>>> i want to be able to modify a kernel module file ..and want to have
>>> capability to cross compile it on ubuntu and insert onto Beagleboard
>>> angstrom.
>> Please have a look at http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ , especially
>> the first news article that mentions "kernel workflow".
>>
>
>
> Thanks Koen ..it was very helpful article ...
>
> but a basic conceptual doubt left .
>
> 1)I have completed
> 1)git clone git://git.angstrom-distribution.org/setup-scripts
> 2)MACHINE=beagleboard ./oebb.sh update
> 3)MACHINE=beagleboard ./oebb.sh bitbake virtual/kernel
>
> But i have not yet done ...
> 4)MACHINE=your_machine ./oebb.sh bitbake base-image
> 5)MACHINE=your_machine ./oebb.sh bitbake console-image
>
> *Even after following above steps i still have not got a git
> directory of kernel source in this path .......*
> setup-scripts/build/tmp-
> angstrom_2008_1/work/beagleboard-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/linux-omap-psp-2.6.32-r100a+gitr5fc29e7b2a76a64a739f857858ef0b98294aa155/temp
> what should i set so as to get kernel source ?
>
bitbake -c configure virtual/kernel

The last stage of a package build by default removes the working tree.

> 2) Text copied as mentioned from "kernel workflow"
>
> "
> So I select a kernel which I wish to develop with, in my case this is in
>
> recipes/elphel/linux-elphel_git.bb
>
> So I first make sure I am starting from clean
>
> bitbake linux-elphel -c clean
> "
> *where is this recipe folder available?*
>
Dont get hung up on specific recipe names, I wrote this article 
specifically for one customer project. Use virtual/kernel anywhere you 
see linux-elphel.
> 3)*Should i need to replace whole image on sdcard or can i just replace
> kernel ?*
>    as far as i got to know that i need "a uImage to replace old uImage " for
> that
> ..is it so?
>
Just kernel + any modules you need can be replaced.

G