[oe] why PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel in conf/machine/sun4cdm.conf does not work

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Guo Hongruan <camelguo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>  I tried to build an openembedded project with the following setting:
> MACHINE=sun4cdm  DISTRO=micro LIBC=eglibc
> But I noticed the following warning message after parsing the bb files:
>
> NOTE: multiple providers are available for virtual/kernel (linux-palmpre,
> linux-rt, gumstix-kernel, linux);
> NOTE: consider defining PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel
> NOTE: Preparing runqueue
> NOTE: Dependencies saved to 'depends.dot'
> NOTE: Task dependencies saved to 'task-depends.dot'
>
> My question is:
> In the conf/machine/sun4cdm.conf, there is the defination of
> PREFFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel, see the following line:
> REFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-sun4cdm"
> Why did it not work at all?
>
> Anyone can give me some hints?

you already seem to have generated .dot files for dependencies so check in there
why other packages ar being pulled in. May be some modules are pulling
them in or something like that.
and the recipe  linux-sun4cdm_2.6.8.1.bb does not seem to include
linux.inc which should be investigated too.

 > Thanks a lot!
>
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