Op 21 apr 2011, om 18:57 heeft Graeme Gregory het volgende geschreven: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:04:37PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've discussed the possibility with a few people on IRC of creating a meta- >> handheld layer for support of older handheld devices - this would include >> Zaurus, iPAQ, SimPad, etc; possibly even EZX phones if they aren't in a >> layer >> of their own. These machines share a fair amount of commonality and I don't >> think that they will all survive if each one has to be put into a BSP of its >> own. Response so far seems to be positive but I'd like to hear thoughts from >> others on this. >> >> I have access to many of these devices, and this is something I am prepared >> to >> maintain on my own time, although I would appreciate help from others. I >> have >> the basis of a layer from what was left in oe-core and meta-extras but quite >> a >> lot of it would need to be brought over from OE. >> >> If people agree that this is a good idea, the next question would be where >> to >> host it - is this something that could be within the meta-oe repository? >> > Grabbing all of these barely supported machines into their own layer sounds > like a good plan to me. > > Id suggest just hosting it on gitorious, if its inside OE then there is the > magic assumption from the public that they should work (which is what happens > now). Then people get really dissapointed when I tell them getting it to work > is likely to be a hard slog.
I agree with Graeme on the hosting bit. I also have all the devices you mentioned near my desk, so testing should be easy :) regards, Koen _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
