I'm building for multiple ARM i.MX6 platforms. These have the same SoC, but slightly different peripherals. As far as I can tell, they should be able to share everything except for a few ${MACHINE} specific packages, e.g. the kernel and u-boot.
Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case. The architecture specific packages are being split into two categories - plain ARM/Cortex-A9 and those that have i.MX6 specific optimizations. For example, after building a complete image (on the order of core-image-sato), I have this split: $ ls tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-amltd-linux-gnueabi/ acl gst-player libsamplerate0 modutils-initscripts shadow-sysroot alsa-utils gst-plugins-bad libsm mpeg2dec shared-mime-info apmd gst-plugins-good libsndfile1 mplayer2 speex atk gst-plugins-ugly libsoup-2.4 mtdev sqlite3 attr gstreamer libtheora ncurses startup-notification base-passwd gstreamer1.0 libtirpc neon strace ... gst-ffmpeg libpostproc matchbox-wm scrnsaverproto zlib gst-fluendo-mpegmux libproxy mkfontdir settings-daemon gst-meta-base libpthread-stubs mkfontscale shadow $ ls tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-mx6qdl-amltd-linux-gnueabi/ alsa-lib gst-plugins-base imx-gpu-viv libfslparser libsdl xf86-video-imxfb-vivante cairo gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad libdrm libfslvpuwrap mesa xserver-xorg firmware-imx gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libfslcodec libglu pulseaudio It's the second category that is causing problems. They do not seem to end up in any shareable sstate at all. If I try to rebuild using only sstate, i.e. build my complete image to success, then remove 'tmp' and rebuild, using the sstate-cache from the first go, all of the above packages (alsa-lib, ..., xserver-xorg) are all rebuilt from scratch. Those recipes do seem to end in my sstate-cache, but they are never reused from it. What would make this happen? How can I prevent it? As is, sstate is not really shareable between these i.MX6 targets as so much is being rebuilt all the time... Any ideas or pointers gladly welcomed. Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto