On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2013 10:24:50 Burton, Ross wrote: >> > * tslib: OE-Core has the 1.0 release version, meta-oe has a git recipe >> > that is ahead of 1.0; the OE-Core version has two patches not in the >> > meta-oe version but that both have been merged upstream in the git >> > revision being used in the meta-oe version. There is no newer stable >> > release. What do we do here? Should we ask upstream (Chris) for a new >> > stable release? >> >> Is anyone actually using tslib these days? oe-core dropped kdrive, >> and we don't package the apparently unmaintained input driver for >> Xorg. I guess a new upstream would be good, and then move to meta-oe. > > Qt Embedded as we build it is currently configured to use tslib, as is > SDL. If the alternative (evdev?) is supported they could presumably be > switched over though. I don't know how practical that is however.
Yes Qt Embedded uses it; not sure evdev is an alternative here. >> > * xserver-nodm-init: the two versions are quite distinct. Not sure I >> > understand the full history here but perhaps someone else can fill in the >> > blanks...? >> >> I don't understand the full history either yet, but this is clearly >> something that needs to be sorted. >> >> > * meta-oe/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.20.2.bbappend >> > As far as I can tell this just adds an /etc/busybox-syslog.default file >> > containing OPTIONS="-C64" and seems to have been added for systemd >> > support. >> > I'm not sure why this wasn't moved to meta-systemd, but I assume it needs >> > to be merged into OE-Core now that systemd support is being added >> > there... ? >> When it's understood *what* that does, then we can evaluate it for oe-core. > > The following commit introduced this: > > http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=c48a6a605c6d8d38cfbc5df39b3dc310bffc07c1 > > Otavio can you explain further? This was to make the service to use the /etc/default/busybox-syslog to configure syslog. Today with the availability of journald I not sure it still has an use. It might be dropped I think. >> > * meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.104.bbappend >> > Another bbappend apparently for systemd support. Again, this should have >> > been moved to meta-systemd; do we now need to merge it into OE-Core? >> >> Yes, half of it has been merged to master already. The rest should be >> in Radu's branch, we can sort that today. > > OK, great. > >> > * meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg_0.10.13.bbappend >> > Builds against external libav instead of using the builtin copy of ffmpeg, >> > apparently for better performance on ARM (and presumably that is not the >> > only benefit). It's less clear to me what should be done with this, but >> > I'd still rather it could be eliminated. OE-Core does not have >> > ffmpeg/libav; one wonders if it should or not. >> >> libav/gst-ffmpeg/gst-av (as it's called in gst1.0) has interesting >> legal issues, but I do think it should be in oe-core. > > Well, we already have gst-ffmpeg in OE-Core so I can't imagine libav > would be any worse as long as it is similarly protected with > LICENSE_FLAGS. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
