Hi Paul,
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:25:13PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 23 August 2011 10:59:42 Klausfpga wrote: > > Am I using the correct url? (it's at least the url also mentioned in > > wikipedia) > > > > Is the Wiki just temporarily down and I was just unlucky enough to try > > to connect at the wromg time? > > Yes that's the correct link, although the website is temporarily down; the > appropriate people have apparently been informed and hopefully can fix it > soon. > > However the website/wiki can still be accessed under > http://wiki.openembedded.org. > > > What I wanted to find out on the wiki: > > > > - what branch / tag to checkout to have a consitant verison > > I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. > > FYI OE is in the middle of a transition of sorts; we're moving to a more > modular metadata structure based around a smaller common core (OE-Core). For > more information please see this page: The wiki frontpage could be updated stating the current OE status at least stating the transition, I`m a newcomer and took some time trying the wiki howtos. I just figured out things after I read all the mailing list archives :) > > http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/OpenEmbedded-Core > > For new development work we would strongly recommend OE-core as a base, > allowing you greater flexibility as well as avoiding some legacy cruft. This is also important to highlight somewhere, maybe the wiki front page as well. Regards, Leandro Dorileo > > > - what to use as starting point for a minimalist x86 system being able > > to run under qemu (x86) > > "Minimalist" is somewhat subjective. OE-core alone provides a "qemux86" > machine target, a distro-less basic configuration and a "core-image-minimal" > image that provides a basic console-only system without package management. > > > - How to add a gnu toolchain package to my minimalist target system > > I think this is a case of adding "tools-sdk" to your IMAGE_FEATURES; someone > else might be able to offer more help here. > > > - what to use as starting point for a minimalist arm11 system being able > > to run under qemu (x86) > > Same as above except use "qemuarm" as the machine. > > > - what is the recommended way to run bitbake in a 64 bit environment > > (psyco is not working). Is pypy an option? > > There's no specific recommended way; the psyco warning was just a warning and > in any case if you're using a recent version of BitBake (as you need to for > OE-core) then Psyco support has been removed and you won't get the warning. > > > - what are the correct mailing lists for such questions > > For OE-classic discussion as well as layers above OE-core, use the > openembedded-devel mailing list. For OE-core use this list (openembedded- > core). I suspect the openembedded-core list will merge into > openembedded-devel > at some point in the near future. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
