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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2011-11-04 16:00:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2011-11-08 16:26:32 +0000 |
| commit | 468c879a9c3a30596cf5137d53bd222610b24b1d (patch) | |
| tree | 291be6bda8fcccb4902f725708fa56fbdd4c1d93 | |
| parent | e8f5b17e86818ae6346ed40f0330cb19946ab626 (diff) | |
| download | poky-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>
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml | 34 |
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 | ||
