Hi,
On 20 May 2013 13:00, Nicolas Dechesne nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org wrote:
hi there,
i am aware and familiar with hwpacks that were initially designed and used to generate ubuntu/android Linaro images.
however i don't know if hwpacks are being used for OE images nowadays?
Yes, they are. To create an OE pre-built image, we use l-m-c in combination of an OE rootfs+hwpack.
OE has intrinsic mechanism to generate/construct full images which include machine dependent binaries as well as generic components. So are we still using hwpacks for building OE images somehow or not? Can someone point me to relevant documentation?
You can look at the following CI jobs: https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/job/openembedded-armv7a-pre-built-images-panda https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/job/openembedded-armv8-pre-built-images-vexpre...
For historical reason, linaro-image-tools is making a few assumptions (ubuntu and deb packages). Since our engineering builds have evolved (android, fedora, openembedded, ubuntu), we're slowly fixing those assumptions and going to a distro agnostic approach. There's a session planned to talk about this topic: hwpackv4.
in the short future i will have to build OE images for a couple of different h/w boards, so i am trying to understand the process to do that a-la Linaro.
thanks
nicolas
Cheers, Fathi