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Bruce Ashfield
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commit 3b3f7e785e279 [kernel: Rearrange for 1.8] began the process of moving the kernel source and build artefacts out of sstate control and into a shared location. This changed triggered some workflow issues, as well as bugs related to the kernel source containing build output, and hence being dirty and breaking kernel rebuilds. To solve these issues, and to make it clear that the kernel is not under sstate control, we move the source and build outputs to: work-shared/MACHINE/kernel-source work-shared/MACHINE/kernel-build-artifacts Where kernel-build-artifacts is the kernel build output and kernel-source is kept "pristine". The build-artifacts contain everything that is required to build external modules against the kernel source, and includes the defconfig, the kernel-abiversion, System.map files and output from "make scripts". External module builds should either pass O= on the command line, or set KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the build-artifacts. module-base.bbclass takes care of setting KBUILD_OUTPUT, so most existing external module recipes are transparently adapted to the new source/build layout. recipes that depend on the kernel source must have a depedency on the do_shared_workdir task: do_configure[depends] += "virtual/kernel:do_shared_workdir" With this dependency added, the STAGING_KERNEL_DIR will be populated and available to the rest of the build. (From OE-Core rev: 6a1ff0e7eacef595738f2fed086986fd622ec32a) Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Poky
====
Poky is an integration of various components to form a complete prepackaged
build system and development environment. It features support for building
customised embedded device style images. There are reference demo images
featuring a X11/Matchbox/GTK themed UI called Sato. The system supports
cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a
standalone toolchain and SDK with IDE integration.
Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports
is available in README.hardware. Further hardware support can easily be added
in the form of layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way.
As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as
BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation and various sources of information
e.g. for the hardware support. Poky is in turn a component of the Yocto Project.
The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a
reference manual which can be found at:
http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
OpenEmbedded-Core is a layer containing the core metadata for current versions
of OpenEmbedded. It is distro-less (can build a functional image with
DISTRO = "nodistro") and contains only emulated machine support.
For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website:
http://www.openembedded.org/
Where to Send Patches
=====================
As Poky is an integration repository, patches against the various components
should be sent to their respective upstreams.
bitbake:
bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
meta-yocto:
poky@yoctoproject.org
Most everything else should be sent to the OpenEmbedded Core mailing list. If
in doubt, check the oe-core git repository for the content you intend to modify.
Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current oe-core git
repository.
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Note: The scripts directory should be treated with extra care as it is a mix
of oe-core and poky-specific files.