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Using bitbake to build a custom gumstix kernel


I've a gumstix Overo which I am configuring to work with a e-CAM camera. The documentation provided by camera manufacture asks me to patch a 2.6.34 kernel and compile in Video For Linux support. When I look at gumstix user documentation they say I should execute:

bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/linux

However when I run this command I get

bacon:~/proj/overo-oe$ bitbake -c menuconfig virtual/linux
NOTE: Handling BitBake files: \ (7100/7100) [100 %]
NOTE: Parsing finished. 6382 cached, 413 parsed, 305 skipped, 2 masked.
ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'virtual/linux'

I'm not altogether sure about how I provide virtual/linux. Any ideas about how to fix this error?


Solution

  • This might be a case of out-of-date documentation. In any case, my current work around is to name the kernel explicitly: bitbake -c menuconfig linux-omap3-2.6.34