[oe] STAGING_KERNEL_DIR

[Andrew Tverdohlebov]

Huge thanks, Koen!

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
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> On 15-06-10 07:36, Andrew Tverdohlebov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am developing a recipe for a code that needs to obtain kernel
>> configuration parameters
>> in order to compile correctly.
>
> If your recipe is really machine specific, add PACKAGE_ARCH =
> "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
>
> If not, add:
>
> # We want a kernel header for armv7a, but we don't want to make mplayer
> machine specific for that
> STAGING_KERNEL_DIR =
> "${STAGING_DIR}/${MACHINE_ARCH}${TARGET_VENDOR}-${TARGET_OS}/kernel"
>
> regards,
>
> Koen
>
>
>>
>> According to the manual there is a variable STAGING_KERNEL_DIR that is
>> supposed to point to the kernel staging dir.
>> In my case it points to staging/mips-linux where I don't see '.config' file.
>> The '.config' file is located in staging/xls4lte-linux (xls4lte - is a
>> name assigned to MACHINE in local.conf)
>>
>> My question: - what is a correct way to refer to a directory where
>> kerenel's config file is located.
>>
>> The second question is - what is a point in several directories in staging dir ?
>>
>> In my case I have:
>> i686-linux
>> i686-linux-sdk
>> mips-linux
>> xls4lte-linux
>>
>> I thought that this might be a property of my distro and checked
>> angstrom for beagleboard and saw the same picture there:
>>
>> while working on my custom linux distro based on openembedded if noticed.
>> armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi
>> armv7a-linux
>> beagleboard-angstrom-linux-gnueabi
>> i686-linux
>>
>> In both cases at least two separate dirs are created in staging. One
>> ${MACHINE}-linux and another ${TARGET-ARCH}-linux.  What are they for
>> ?
>> And how to properly refer to staging/${MACHINE}-linux ?
>>
>> Any help will be hugely appreciated.
>> Andrew
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