Hi Everyone,
We are pleased to announce that support for ARM GCC 9.2-2019.12 [1]
toolchain has been added in meta-linaro [2].
- Support for ARM GCC 9.2 toolchain built from source, steps to use it:
- Add <path-to-meta-linaro-repo>/meta-linaro-toolchain/ to BBLAYERS
in conf/bblayers.conf.
- Configure: GCCVERSION = "arm-9.2" in conf/local.conf.
- Support for prebuilt ARM GCC 9.2 toolchain, steps to use it:
- Add <path-to-meta-linaro-repo>/meta-linaro-toolchain/ to BBLAYERS
in conf/bblayers.conf.
- Configure: TCMODE = "external-arm" in conf/local.conf.
- For AArch64 (eg. qemuarm64 machine in poky distro)
- Configure: EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN =
"<installation-path>/gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu"
in
conf/local.conf.
- For AArch32 (eg. qemuarm machine in poky distro)
- Configure: EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN =
"<installation-path>/gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf"
in conf/local.conf.
Distro testing:
===========
- poky distro (branch: zeus, machines: qemuarm and qemuarm64)
- Build and boot tested.
- RPB distro (branch: zeus, machine: dragonboard-410c)
- Build and boot tested.
- World builds (branch: zeus, machines: qemuarm and qemuarm64) for
following layers:
- poky/meta
- poky/meta-poky
- poky/meta-yocto-bsp
- meta-openembedded/meta-oe
- meta-openembedded/meta-python
- meta-openembedded/meta-networking
Known issues:
===========
- mariadb build failure with ARM GCC 9.2 toolchain built from source:
- Recipe fix patch [3] accepted in OE upstream.
- Native tools dependency issues seen with multiple recipes (psmisc,
xclock, ndisc6, dovecot, man-db, drbd-utils and unbound) when using
prebuilt ARM GCC 9.2 toolchain.
- Fixes posted in OE upstream [4] [5].
Reporting bugs:
============
Please report any issue here [6].
[1]
https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer…
[2] https://git.linaro.org/openembedded/meta-linaro.git/?h=master
[3] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/169296/
[4] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/169289/
[5] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/series/22188/
[6] https://bugs.linaro.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Linaro%20OpenEmbedded
Happy hacking!,
Regards,
Sumit
Hello all,
When building dunfell branch of meta-linaro for qemux86-64 target, the following parse error occurs:
ERROR: ../sources/meta-linaro/meta-linaro/recipes-linaro/images/linaro-image-lng.bb: No IMAGE_CMD defined for IMAGE_FSTYPES entry 'qcow2' - possibly invalid type name or missing support class
It seems that qcow2 should be replaced with wic.qcow2 according to this oe-core commit from 2017:
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?h=dunfell&id=929ba56…
Indeed doing so fixes the build for me.
The master branch of meta-linaro also uses 'qcow2' (while being updated to the newer yocto variable override syntax). So I would expect it to fail similarly there.
Should this get fixed in meta-linaro? Are other people building the dunfell branch successfully?
Thanks,
Ralph
