Hi Paul, Thanks for your detailed answer.
On 08/23/2011 06:25 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > 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. > Ok so just bad timing :-( > > 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. >> What I wanted to know was what to checkout best: origin/master/ might not be a good idea, at least last time I tried this I often fell into inconsistent releases origin/stable/2009 on the other hand had it's latest change in July 2010 >> 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: >> >> http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/OpenEmbedded-Core >> This looks interesting. Thanks for this info. I will read more on the wiki. >> - 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. > Well with minimalist I meant kernel + base file system + busybox + package management I will look at qemux86 and core-image-minimal >> - 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 I meant here is: Can pypy or somethign else be used in order to accelerate the execution of BitBake. >> - 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. > > Thanks ance more _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
