[oe-users] no signs of kernel in opie-image

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Michal,

Thursday, November 2, 2006, 5:39:06 PM, you wrote:

> I am building image for familiar.

  Well, you ses, the situation is that OE.dev doesn't support building
Familiar images. That's due to Familiar maintainers' decision to
fork/branch  Familiar OE tree off the main OE trunk (OE.dev). They
also chose not to support Familiar distro configs  in OE.dev.

   Also, "familiar-unstable" doesn't really relate to Familiar besides
that *some time ago* it was conceived as a base for next Familiar
version. Alas, it's not the  case any longer. So, it's just  a random,
unsupported distro.

   So, if you want to build a Familiar distro, you really should use
Familiar tree. Otherwise, you are welcome and encouraged to try
Angstrom. While there's no general availability release yet, and it is
in unstable state, it is pretty suitable for developers' use.


> There is no kernel stuff at all in
> the image - the zImage in the boot dir is missing as well all the
> modules (/lib/modules). I heve checked the
> Angstrom-gpe-image-test-20061019-h2200.rootfs.tar.bz2 (I can not find
> the source where I found it - somewhere in the OE people dirs ....)
> and this one has all the needed files.

  Angstrom snapshot images are regularly released by Angstrom
maintainers and available at
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/images/

> When You mentioned about the hx4700 and a bb file did You mean these
> lines in the bb "ALLOW_EMPTY_hx4700 = 1"   ?

FILES_kernel-image_hx4700 = ""

to be exact. I.e. it explicitly sets filelist to empty for the package
which otherwise should contain zImage-*. See kernel.bbclass

> I am not sure if You would be able to build the amstronng opie image- see
> http://www.openembedded.org/viewmtn/revision.psp?id=e0255e8055b52314c90b557462593256196bdc88
> (in short: "Changelog   angstrom: nobody wants to support either an
> opie-based image nor opie itself for angstrom, so lets remove the opie
> bits and select appropriate defaults for xine and sdl" ).

  Just reverse that locally, and it builds file (well, one-line patch
is required somewhere).

  I'm waiting for acceptance of my OPIE packages maintenance proposal to
fix that.

> I am attaching my config.

> Michal

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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com