Hello Gernot,

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 12:18:33AM -0800, 'Gernot Hillier' via isar-users wrote:
> So I did a bit of pattern matching and added the following files:
>
> meta-isar/conf/distro/debian-jessie.conf
> meta-isar/conf/machine/qemui386.conf
> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386.conf
>
> with appropriate contents (I hope).
>
> But whatever I do, I always end up with a "KeyError: qemuintel" in
> buildTaskData (bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py:683).
>
> Before I go ahead and debug this, a short question: is it supposed to work
> that (simple) way? Or would building another Debian version for another
> arch require more work?

It's more or less it, plus generalizing a couple of other bits. Please have a
look at https://github.com/ilbers/isar/tree/i386. It currently drops to the
initramfs shell, will have a look.

> BTW1: Sorry for this ugly message, but I didn't find a quick way to
> subscribe this Google thingie be as a normal ML. Can you tell me how this
> works? I was so overwhelmed by all that colorful UI buttons that I couldn't
> find any subscribe link, only an option which notifies me by mail "less
> than 1 time a day".

mailto:isar-users...@googlegroups.com.

> BTW2: Currently, the distro configuration "debian-wheezy" implies ARM
> architecture. So shouldn't it be named debian-wheezy-arm then? Or does
> meta-isar/conf/distro/debian-wheezy.conf only define a default architecture
> which can be overriden in the bitbake call? If yes, how?

Please see the i386 branch, we've moved that to local.conf / multiconfig.