bitbake core-image-minimal gives me an error on 5.8

[jjvazha]

I was following the https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/BuildingYoctoOrAngstromForSoCFPGA
I pulled the 5.8

bitbake core-image-minimal gives me an error

DEBUG: Executing shell function do_shared_workdir
cp: cannot stat ‘Module.symvers’: No such file or directory
WARNING: /home/jojan.vazhaeparampil/workspace/distro/build/tmp/work/cyclone5-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-altera/5.8+gitAUTOINC+eb446787ab-r0/temp/run.do_shared_workdir.21040:1 exit 1 from 'cp Module.symvers $kerneldir/'
ERROR: Function failed: do_shared_workdir (log file is located at /home/jojan.vazhaeparampil/workspace/distro/build/tmp/work/cyclone5-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-altera/5.8+gitAUTOINC+eb446787ab-r0/temp/log.do_shared_workdir.21040)

[kraj]

from your logs it seems that its building 5.8 kernel not 5.4 so you might have to set PREFERRED_VERSION

[jjvazha]

I am using kraj/meta-altera recepie from https://github.com/kraj/meta-altera/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-altera_5.8.bb On Friday, December 18, 2020, 9:00:50 PM PST, Khem Raj <notifications@github.com> wrote: from your logs it seems that its building 5.8 kernel not 5.4 so you might have to set PREFERRED_VERSION — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[jjvazha]

The recepie pull this source https://github.com/altera-opensource/linux-socfpga/tree/socfpga-5.8

[FabianoGK]

I do have the same problem:

ERROR: linux-altera-5.8+gitAUTOINC+eb446787ab-r0 do_shared_workdir: Execution of '/media/Data/Project/build/tmp/work/arria10-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-altera/5.8+gitAUTOINC+eb446787ab-r0/temp/run.do_shared_workdir.1477800' failed with exit code 1:
cp: cannot stat 'Module.symvers': No such file or directory

This is my build configuration on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS:

BB_VERSION           = "1.44.0"
BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING      = "universal"
TARGET_SYS           = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE              = "arria10"
DISTRO               = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION       = "3.0.2"
TUNE_FEATURES        = "arm armv7a vfp thumb neon callconvention-hard"
TARGET_FPU           = "hard"
meta                 
meta-poky            
meta-yocto-bsp       = "HEAD:74f229160c7f4037107c1dad8f0d02128c080a7e"
meta-oe              = "HEAD:9e60d30669a2ad0598e9abf0cd15ee06b523986b"
meta-altera          = "master:5bb81b77d7bf81a726daec8819fa01c188863f5a"

I had to update the linux-altera recipe to linux-altera_5.8 since the previous Linux branches from linux-socfpga have been deleted (deprecated).

For now, I'm using linux-altera-lts version 5.4.104, which compiles successfully. You can add the following to your layer.conf:

KERNEL_PROVIDER = "linux-altera-lts"

[kraj]

Can you cook a patch and propose here?

[FabianoGK]

Hi @kraj, actually I was able to successfully compile linux-altera_5.8 after upgrading poky and open-embedded layers to dunfell. It must be something incompatible with zeus that caused the issue.

This is my upgraded build configuration on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS:

BB_VERSION           = "1.46.0"
BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING      = "universal"
TARGET_SYS           = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE              = "arria10"
DISTRO               = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION       = "3.1.8"
TUNE_FEATURES        = "arm armv7a vfp thumb neon callconvention-hard"
TARGET_FPU           = "hard"
meta                 
meta-poky            
meta-yocto-bsp       = "dunfell:0abf6820292b8a6ac566db254ff8c9f76bf678b9"
meta-oe              = "dunfell:11eae114522a6befa06c7f4021a83bc016133543"
meta-altera          = "master:5bb81b77d7bf81a726daec8819fa01c188863f5a"