[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] Add qemumips64 machine support

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2013, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>> >   having unwisely wandered into this MIPS64 minefield a couple weeks
>> > back, i might as well see if i can get a build.  in short:
>> >
>> > * switch to kraj/qemumips64 branch of openembedded-core-contrib
>> > * add that as another layer along with oe-core
>>
>>
>> I believe you only need to add this oe-core/meta layer once. My bblayers.conf contains:
>>
>>      BBLAYERS ?= " \
>>           /home/trevor/devel/yocto/git/meta-poky/meta-yocto \
>>           /home/trevor/devel/yocto/git/meta-poky/meta-yocto-bsp \
>>           /home/trevor/devel/yocto/git/openembedded-core/meta \
>>           "
>>      BBLAYERS_NON_REMOVABLE ?= " \
>>           /home/trevor/devel/yocto/git/openembedded-core/meta \
>>           /home/trevor/devel/yocto/git/meta-poky/meta-yocto \
>>           "
>>
>>
>> > * MACHINE = "qemumips64"
>> > * bitbake a core-image-minimal
>> >
>> >   is there anything critical i'm forgetting? what's the safest simple
>> > image to try to build?  fetching is now underway ...
>>
>> That's exactly what I tried.
>
>   so, once the build finishes, should i be expecting to run anything
> other than (if memory serves):
>
> $ runqemu qemumips64
>
> ???  any known issues or surprises?

That's all you need, here's my output:

root at qemumips64:~# uname -a
Linux qemumips64 3.8.11-yocto-standard #1 PREEMPT Mon May 13 15:47:58
EDT 2013 mips64 GNU/Linux

That's built from scratch on Yocto master. So clearly there's something strange
going on in the failing configs.

Bruce

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