[oe] Adding a new Machine question

[Martyn Welch]

Perepelica Alexander wrote:
> Hi!
> I have problem with configs for new x86_64 machine.
> How I read in manual I need set next vasiables
> 1. TARGET_ARCH
>  TARGET_ARCH = "x86_64"
> 2. MACHINE_FEATURES
> MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 screen keyboard pci usbhost acpi ext2 x86"
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules"
> 3. PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux"
> And now when I build  helloworld-image all is ok i get my RFS image.
> But when I try build bootstrap-image I got error
> "  no such directory asm-x86" but I see dir with name "asm-generic" and
> name of machine conf file is x86_64-generic.conf.
> So, I don't understand what I do wrong?
>

I think I had this problem as well when compiling for a i586-generic
(infact i686-generic and x86 as well).

All the kernel bitbake files contain DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" and the
bitbake file for the newest kernel (linux_2.6.32+2.6.33-rc3.bb
<http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/linux/linux_2.6.32+2.6.33-rc3.bb>
I think) was failing for x86.

I modified linux_2.6.32.bb
<http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/linux/linux_2.6.32.bb>
from:

|DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
|

to:

|DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "1"
|

and was able to build (though I haven't got around to testing the
resulting kernel yet...)

Martyn


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