[oe] New IXP4XX-based Machine
Mark Gollahon
golly at stellarwerx.com
Wed Jan 31 22:15:35 UTC 2007
Hello!
As I have stated before, I am a bit new, so please bear with me.
I am trying to bring up OE on a new IXP4XX-based machine and having a little trouble with the "proper" way to do it. For example, I created a whole new machine config, inserting what I think should be machine-specific settings, and importing the (now somewhat-defunct) ixp4xx.conf configuration (and later the ixp4xxbe.conf configuration). My bootstrap-image gets everything compiled, but when it goes to build the rootfs, ipkg fails looking for task-base.
My question is not so much about getting ipkg to work (I have found several ways), but more about the "proper" way so that I don't go "spinning into the grass" in the future. I noticed that during the rootfs build that the "ixp4xxbe" "arch" was not in the ipkg config file, so all of my "*_ixp4xxbe.ipk" files were completely ignored - stuff like "task-base"! I ultimately had to append "armv5te" and "ixp4xxbe" to PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS and that worked, but I worked on this on-and-off for over a week to figure it out. I really don't want to do that again when/if I try to bring up another machine.
My question is - should I even be attempting to define a new machine and including ixp4xxbe.conf in it? Should I define my own machine by copying the contents of ixp4xxbe.conf? Should I have specified the "ixp4xxbe" machine file in my local.conf along with the extra (what I think should be) machine config? Or should I define my own distro and put that machine config there? What is the most appropriate way to do this?
Thank you!
-Mark Gollahon
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