Tool/software:
I'm trying to create a custom kernel in a repeatable, scriptable fashion that I can check into CM, and I am new to the TI toolchain and workflow. I thought I had a workable solution but my kernel changes are not actually having any effect. Below is my process. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.
1. Forked https://git.ti.com/git/arago-project/oe-layersetup.git (commit ed9d4cc) and, created my own master branch, and set my new master branch as default.
2. Created a Makefile in the repo root directory with the following contents:
MAKEFILE_DIR := $(abspath $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
A72_IPK_DIR := $(MAKEFILE_PATH)build/arago-tmp-default-glibc/deploy/ipk/aarch64/
R5_IPK_DIR := $(MAKEFILE_PATH)build/arago-tmp-default-baremetal-k3r5/deploy/ipk/
.PHONY: installable-packages-list
all::
@./oe-layertool-setup.sh -f configs/processor-sdk-analytics/processor-sdk-analytics-10.01.00-config.txt; \
echo 'ARAGO_BRAND = "edgeai"' >> build/conf/local.conf; \
echo 'IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " vim"' >> build/conf/local.conf; \
cd build; \
source conf/setenv; \
MACHINE="j721e-sk" bitbake -k tisdk-edgeai-image
I checked this into CM, cloned it back down, ran "make" and successfully created a loadable image that successfully booted. This verified that I could at least create an image. Is this the correct work flow?
Next, I wanted to enable building of all the IMX camera drivers as modules. So, I created the following custom layer.
sources/meta-windhover
├── conf
│ └── layer.conf
├── COPYING.MIT
├── README
└── recipes-kernel
└── linux
├── linux-ti-staging
│ └── camera-modules.cfg
└── linux-ti-staging_%.bbappend
layer.conf:
# We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH
BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"
# We have recipes-* directories, add to BBFILES
BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb \
${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend"
BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "meta-windhover"
BBFILE_PATTERN_meta-windhover = "^${LAYERDIR}/"
BBFILE_PRIORITY_meta-windhover = "20"
LAYERDEPENDS_meta-windhover = "core meta-ti-bsp"
LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_meta-windhover = "scarthgap"
linux/linux-ti-staging_%.bbappend:
FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
SRC_URI += "file://camera-modules.cfg"
camera-modules.cfg:
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX208=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX214=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX219=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX258=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX274=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX290=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX296=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX319=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX334=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX335=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX355=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX390=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX412=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX415=m
Finally, I added the two lines to the "all" recipe in the Makefile:
MACHINE="j721e-sk" bitbake-layers add-layer ../sources/meta-windhover; \
MACHINE="j721e-sk" recipetool newappend ../sources/meta-windhover/ linux-ti-staging; \
First, please let me know if there is a better workflow. I verified that "build/conf/bblayers.conf" contains my new layer. When I run "make", it successfully creates an image that boots. But when I run "zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_VIDEO_IMX", I see that none of my changes have gone into effect. What am I doing wrong?
p.s. I apologize for the post formatting. I tried using the "</> CODE " block but found that some of the text I had to put into the block caused the block to actually disappear from the post.
