summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/documentation/dev-manual
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2011-11-04 16:00:00 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-11-08 16:26:32 +0000
commit468c879a9c3a30596cf5137d53bd222610b24b1d (patch)
tree291be6bda8fcccb4902f725708fa56fbdd4c1d93 /documentation/dev-manual
parente8f5b17e86818ae6346ed40f0330cb19946ab626 (diff)
downloadpoky-468c879a9c3a30596cf5137d53bd222610b24b1d.tar.gz
documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml: Added footnote
Per Tom Zanussi's suggestion, we added a footnote to the paragraph instructing the user on build problems for the example. I don't have clean fonts in the HTML version of the output. I am still working on figuring that out. Reported by: Tom Zanussi (From yocto-docs rev: 30fe7bd239292ed92f76fbc2f1fad62469f7fe9b) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual')
-rw-r--r--documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml34
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml
index eecca8ebd4..ed3af67284 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml
@@ -629,6 +629,22 @@
629 Insert the device 629 Insert the device
630 into a bootable USB socket on the target, and power it on. 630 into a bootable USB socket on the target, and power it on.
631 The system should boot to the Sato graphical desktop. 631 The system should boot to the Sato graphical desktop.
632 <footnote><para>Because
633 this new image is not in any way tailored to the system you're
634 booting it on, which is assumed to be some sort of atom-pc (netbook) system for this
635 example, it might not be completely functional though it should at least boot to a text
636 prompt.
637 Specifically, it might fail to boot into graphics without some tweaking.
638 If this ends up being the case, a possible next step would be to replace the
639 <filename>mymachine.conf</filename>
640 contents with the contents of <filename>atom-pc.conf</filename> and replace
641 <filename>xorg.conf</filename> with <filename>atom-pc xorg.conf</filename>
642 in <filename>meta-yocto</filename> and see if it fares any better.
643 In any case, following the previous steps will give you a buildable image that
644 will probably boot on most systems.
645 Getting things working like you want
646 them to for your hardware will normally require some amount of experimentation with
647 configuration settings.</para></footnote>
632 </para> 648 </para>
633 649
634 <para> 650 <para>
@@ -647,24 +663,6 @@
647 also provides some suggestions for things to try if booting fails and produces 663 also provides some suggestions for things to try if booting fails and produces
648 strange error messages.</note> 664 strange error messages.</note>
649 </para> 665 </para>
650
651 <para>
652 Because this new image is not in any way tailored to the system you're
653 booting it on, which is assumed to be some sort of atom-pc (netbook) system for this
654 example, it might not be completely functional though it should at least boot to a text
655 prompt.
656 Specifically, it might fail to boot into graphics without some tweaking.
657 If this ends up being the case, a possible next step would be to replace the
658 <filename>mymachine.conf</filename>
659 contents with the contents of <filename>atom-pc.conf</filename> and replace
660 <filename>xorg.conf</filename> with <filename>atom-pc xorg.conf</filename>
661 in <filename>meta-yocto</filename> and see if it fares any better.
662 In any case, following the previous steps will give you a buildable image that
663 will probably boot on most systems.
664 Getting things working like you want
665 them to for your hardware will normally require some amount of experimentation with
666 configuration settings.
667 </para>
668</section> 666</section>
669</appendix> 667</appendix>
670 668