2010/12/2 Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>: > On 12/2/2010 8:17 AM, Carsten Munk wrote: >> >> 2010/12/2 Arjan van de Ven<[email protected]>: >>> >>> On 12/2/2010 4:32 AM, Carsten Munk wrote: >>>> >>>> If there's suggestions how we handle global detection of what device >>>> we run and configure accordingily, especially inside PulseAudio >>>> configuration. I'd like to know this as well - I don't think we can >>>> rely on autodetect for something as complex as audio configuration >>>> when modems etc are involved. >>> >>> it's very simple actually >>> >>> you make pulseaudio try >>> >>> /etc/pulse/foo.conf.<machinename> >>> before it tries >>> /etc/pulse/foo.conf >>> >>> <machinename> on x86 comes from sysfs: >>> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name >>> on ARM apparently it may come from cpuinfo or something (but that's a >>> detail, if there is no board name you can do architecture name) >>> >>> with that we can parallel ship a series of config files, and the right >>> one >>> gets picked at runtime automatically. >>> but that also means that we can use the same image on multiple devices... >>> something rather important on x86 >> >> Sounds like a good direction. Maybe we should provide a simple package >> wih '/usr/bin/meego-machinename' which outputs a proper machine name >> in an arch-indep manner? (I guess we shouldn't encourage people to >> parse /proc/cpuinfo or rely on /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name >> existence.. #ifdef __arm__ or x86 is so ugly :) >> >> That, or a machine name being put in /etc/meego-machinename at startup >> or something to avoid launching a process each time. > > I like the /etc/meego-machinename thing or even just /etc/machinename > > we can do the x86 side no big deal in a short time... > (heck it could just be a symlink to the sysfs file there)
We're running into the auto-detection discussion again on sensorfw-config-n900, so let's revive this thread - how do we proceed to get this support done? Who takes the lead? BR Carsten Munk _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
