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I. Building the meta-crownbay BSP layer
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-For each BSP in the 'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple
-branches, one corresponding to each major release starting with
-'laverne' (0.90), in addition to the latest code which tracks the
-current master.
-
In order to build an image with BSP support for a given release, you
-need to check out the 'meta-intel' branch corresponding to the release
-you're building against e.g. to build for bernard (1.0), check out
-the 'bernard' branch of both poky and 'meta-intel'.
+need to download the corresponding BSP tarball from the 'Board Support
+Package (BSP) Downloads' page of the Yocto Project website.
-Having done that, and assuming you cloned the 'meta-intel' repository
+Having done that, and assuming you extracted the BSP tarball contents
at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can build a crownbay
image by adding the location of the meta-crownbay layer to
bblayers.conf e.g.:
@@ -61,6 +55,15 @@ At the end of a successful build, you should have a live image that
you can boot from a USB flash drive (see instructions on how to do
that below, in the section 'Booting the images from /binary').
+As an alternative to downloading the BSP tarball, you can also work
+directly from the meta-intel git repository. For each BSP in the
+'meta-intel' repository, there are multiple branches, one
+corresponding to each major release starting with 'laverne' (0.90), in
+addition to the latest code which tracks the current master. Instead
+of extracting a BSP tarball at the top level of your yocto build tree,
+you can equivalently check out the appropriate branch from the
+meta-intel repository at the same location.
+
II. Special notes for building the meta-crownbay BSP layer
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