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Richard Purdie
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Memory resident bitbake has one current flaw, changes in the base configuration are not noticed by bitbake. The parsing cache is also refreshed on each invocation of bitbake (although the mtime cache is not cleared so its pointless). This change adds in pyinotify support and adds two different watchers, one for the base configuration and one for the parsed recipes. Changes in the latter will trigger a reparse (and an update of the mtime cache). The former will trigger a complete reload of the configuration. Note that this code will also correctly handle creation of new configuration files since the __depends and __base_depends variables already track these for cache correctness purposes. We could be a little more clever about parsing cache invalidation, right now we just invalidate the whole thing and recheck. For now, its better than what we have and doesn't seem to perform that badly though. For education and QA purposes I can document a workflow that illustrates this: $ source oe-init-build-env-memres $ time bitbake bash [base configuration is loaded, recipes are parsed, bash builds] $ time bitbake bash [command returns quickly since all caches are valid] $ touch ../meta/classes/gettext.bbclass $ time bitbake bash [reparse is triggered, time is longer than above] $ echo 'FOO = "1"' >> conf/local.conf $ time bitbake bash [reparse is triggered, but with a base configuration reload too] As far as changes go, I like this one a lot, it makes memory resident bitbake truly usable and may be the tweak we need to make it the default. The new pyinotify dependency is covered in the previous commit. (Bitbake rev: 0557d03c170fba8d7efe82be1b9641d0eb229213) 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.