Hi all, Andrea has been doing some cleanup on meta-handheld, and he and I have come across what seems to be a bit of a shortcoming with formfactor over the variable-based alternative that was used in OE-Classic (MACHINE_GUI_CLASS, MACHINE_DISPLAY_WIDTH_PIXELS, MACHINE_DISPLAY_HEIGHT_PIXELS etc.). In meta-opie, the latter variables are still being used in a machine-specific packagegroup recipe to select the appropriate set of pixmaps to be installed for each machine based on the screen resolution, so you don't have to have pixmaps installed that you're never going to use (which would waste storage space).
formfactor is the current method supported in OE-Core for representing differences in machine display/input characteristics, however it seems only queryable at runtime since its files are not written into the sysroot. We could change it to stage to the sysroot, and therefore the data could be queried at least at packaging time in other recipes that depend on formfactor. Does this sound like a reasonable solution for this kind of problem, or is there a better solution? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
