Hello! I have been playing around with a SoCKit, not doing anything too important but really just getting used to it.
I have a current project that I am trying to do which involves a Python script that communicates with FPGA logic via UART.
I've figured out how to activate the second UART in QSys, connect it to FPGA logic, and verified I can access the UART from the default Linux image that shipped with the kit.
Then I downloaded all the stuff to generate the altera-gsrd-image and generated it sucessfully. But that gsrd image didn't include python.
So, I googled around a bit and found that you could add packages to the Yocto build process by adding:
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " xxx yyy"
in conf/local.conf, where xxx and yyy are packages to install.
So I used that syntax to install a few packages, and that worked. But for some reason, installing python in this manner is not working for me.
I get all the way to the end, and then when running do_rootfs the bitbake script generates an error:
| Unable to resolve package python
| ERROR: some packages were missing
Only I think it knows where to find python: "bitbake python" will finish with no problems. And other packages will work, I only seem to have this problem with python.
Can anyone help me out?
Thank you!
