[maemo-developers] OpenEmbedded

[From: Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia Thursday, 21 of February 2008, Ian Key napisał:

> Following on from the "How to detect Maemo for building...",  Marcin
> Juszkiewicz specifies OE for package building. 

> Using, say, Chinook SDK has anyone used OE to build a complete rootfs
> and flash on device or use the MMC? 

OpenEmbedded use 'chinook-compat' distro configuration to build packages 
compatible with OS2008. It is not used to build whole rootfs. I do not 
remember does OE already has kernel from OS2008 or not - if not then I 
will add it soon. 

This kernel it is present in Poky which is derivated from OE and used by 
OpenedHand. You can run Poky on any Nokia tablet - we (I work for OH) 
provide rootfs + kernel on http://pokylinux.org/ website (look into 
autobuilder output).

> If so, what BitBake configurations were used (I notice there are some
> N800 .bb files present). 

MACHINE="nokia800" supports N800 and N810.

> What toolchain is used for the compilation? 

CSL 3.4.4 - same as in Chinook SDK but built from source instead of using 
binaries.

> I'm new to OE and fairly new to Linux development, have been using
> Scratchbox for as long as I've done Linux devel (which isn't long), so
> any help is appreciated.

Grab OE, setup and then set DISTRO="chinook-compat" MACHINE="nokia800" and 
try to build software.

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