I am an experience OpenEmbedded hacker. But I was pleased yesterday when I decided OK let me add a new machine (namely qemumips64 ) to Yocto kernel. How hard could…
Read moreUsing OpenEmbedded-core to build Angstrom for QEMU
I was working on getting oe-core to build something. It is pretty easy though Clone the angstrom setup scripts git clone git://git.angstrom-distribution.org/setup-scripts cd setup-scripts (PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT ALL BITBAKE…
Read moreDowngrading package versions in OpenEmbedded
Sometimes its required to downgrade a package version e.g. you are suspecting that the problem is caused by udev version 171 so you would like to build a root file…
Read moreCross testing eglibc regression testsuite using OpenEmbedded-core/QEMU
OpenEmbedded builds systems using eglibc or uclibc for a C standard library. Both the libraries come with there own regression testsuites which have there own requirements to create the right…
Read moreOpenembedded bblayers and bbappend
OpenEmbedded has implemented bblayers and bbappend features recently (Thanks to Richard Purdie). These features are very useful when one wants to tweak the OE recipes but not necessarily override it…
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