On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Phil Blundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 22:50 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: >> I'm curious if the people who want / and /usr on separate partitions >> that Phil refers to are a hypothetical group of people, or people who >> can chime in with their opinion. > > As far as I know, only Intel have ever expressed any real interest in > having this feature work. My recollection is that there are some > supposed "carrier grade" systems where this is, for whatever reason, a > requirement.
whatever the reasons are. Its not clear what are reasons these systems can not use techniques available now a days for creating new systems. I can understand if OE had a legacy of it but seemingly its a feature being added. I see that as an exception and not norm and we are treating as norm. There's been some previous discussion on the list, see for > example: > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/017360.html > > and the follow-ups to that message. > > p. > > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
