Setting-up Yocto for MACHINE=beaglebone

setup.md

Checkout repositories

1. Poky

git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky && cd poky

1. OE metadata layers

git clone https://github.com/openembedded/meta-oe

1. TI metadata layer

git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti

Prepare to build

1. Initialise build environment

source oe-init-build-env

1. In conf/local.conf set these variables:

• MACHINE ?= "beaglebone"
• BBMASK ?= ".*/meta-ti/recipes-misc/(images|payload)/" (unless you wish to deal with unnecessary layer dependencies)

1. Add meta-oe/meta-oe and meta-ti layers to conf/bblayers.conf

BBFILES ?= ""
BBLAYERS ?= " \
  ${TOPDIR}/../meta \
  ${TOPDIR}/../meta-yocto \
  ${TOPDIR}/../meta-oe/meta-oe \
  ${TOPDIR}/../meta-ti \
  ${TOPDIR}/../meta-yocto-bsp \
  "

Compile everything!

bitbake core-image-minimal

May be obvious to some, but thought I'd just add that on an Ubuntu Precise32 vagrant box, I found I needed to do this prior to the above:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath libsdl1.2-dev xterm bc