Re: Machine config generator (FOSDEM idea)

[Phil Blundell <pb@reciva.com>]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:25 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> OE developers usually know that machine config is simple but tell that 
> to Joe Random who only knows that his board use s3c2443 etc. So idea was 
> to create simple few steps wizard which will ask few questions and 
> produce machine config as result. More work would be required on 
> creating kernel recipe because kernel can be from svn/cvs/git or tarball 
> + quilt patchset etc...

This seems like it's really a documentation problem.  It's hard to see
that the wizard would be able to perform any useful, non-trivial
processing of its own: it'd basically just be taking the information
from the user and regurgitating it in a slightly different format.

If users are finding it hard to figure out how to create a machine
description then the right answer is probably a wiki page or a chapter
in the manual that explains in small words how to do it.

p.