Denis, Think of OE as a distribution (as in Ubuntu, Mandrake or Redhad) for embedded systems (ARM, xscale and many others). Here are all the packages supported by OE. http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages and here is the direct link to DirectFB: http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/directfb The .bb files are recipe files and are what bitbake (OE's main application) uses to build the package.
I recommend going to the OE wiki and running the demo to get a better understanding of what it is. I guess to summarize OE does not do anything special with DirectFB but anyone wanting to make an embedded system using DirectFB could do so with OE and it would take almost no setup time to get a complete working system. My company is using DirectFB in our next product and the way we found out about it was through OE and with one command "bitbake directfb" I had it compiled and then with another command I had it installed on our embedded product and running. I'm not sure I'm doing a very good job at explaining things. Again I recommend looking at the docs on the wiki. My only reason for asking you to put a link to OE was anyone wanting to use DirectFB in an embedded system would find OE as a very simple way to do it since OE will build, configure and set up all the cross compile tools with pretty much one command and it will build and install directFB plus almost any other package you want (see link above). Any package in that link can be compiled and installed in any of the supported embedded systems it is also very easy to add a new system. I'm not an official OE developer I was just amazed at how simple it was to use and how easily I was able to get DirectFB running on my board with it so I thought others might be interested. Regards, Shane On 1/31/07, Denis Oliver Kropp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Denis, > > Openembedded allows you to build an entire embedded Linux filesystem > > and kernel with only a couple of commands. It has hundreds of > > packages to choose from and directFB is one of them. OE also supports > > many boards and handhelds off the shelf. > > It uses IPKG which is a light weight version of apt so you can, with > > similar commands to apt, so you can have a repository for your > > embedded product to install packages on the fly. > > Ah, I couldn't find anything about DirectFB, even using the site search :) > > -- > Best regards, > Denis Oliver Kropp > > .------------------------------------------. > | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | > | http://www.directfb.org/ | > "------------------------------------------" > -- Registered Linux User: #293401 _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
