Many people do not realize that Poky (and OpenEmbedded .dev) have so called “packaged staging” support.
What it is?
Let me try to describe it a bit. During normal builds “tmp/staging” directory is populated during do_stage tasks and there is no way to remove staged files in other way then by hand. With “packaged staging” this area [...]
Some months ago Ross Burton wrote about checking email authors on LinkedIn:
I generally thought that LinkedIn was pretty useless for people like me. I have a community of like-minded associates available via Planet Gnome and so on, so apart from collecting friends it is pretty useless.
But recently it’s been becoming quite useful. For large companies [...]
OpenEmbedded builds usually take lot of time as not everyone has build machines with multiple CPUs (or multi-core CPUs). But how to make them faster and make better use of multiple CPU cores?
Solution is in two BitBake variables:
PARALLEL_MAKE — this is passed to make so setting it to “-j X” is handy (where value of [...]
Yesterday OpenedHand team (which I am proud to be a part of) released Poky Linux 3.1 ‘pinky`.
What interesting in this version?
user manual with lot of things explained conversion to use the sysroot mode of gcc, making cross compiling both easier and more robust. conversion to use pkgconfig in sysroot mode Anjuta integration with Poky’s SDK and QEMU, making [...]
All started years ago — I was living in Wrocław then. Each Thursday groups of friends met in pub. About half of them used PalmOS powered palmtops. Due to them I started thinking about buying palmtop for myself.
Palm M105
About year later I bought my first PDA: Palm M105. It had monochrome screen (16 shades of [...]
During last days I spent time on adding ARMv6 related stuff into Poky.
First problem was lack of ARMv6 support in QEmu which we use to generate binary locales (you need at least 128M of RAM to get localedef working on device). All information which I found in net was info from Paul Brook that he [...]