From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [64.233.166.181] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IltHs-0005h5-O3 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:33:45 +0200 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a25so2476945pyi for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.188.14 with SMTP id q14mr9446337qbp.1193520367627; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lenovo ( [75.121.171.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r15sm3424839nza.2007.10.27.14.26.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lenovo (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:26:01 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:26:01 -0500 From: David Farning To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-ID: <20071027212600.GA6219@lenovo> References: <471FC1C0.4010103@linux.it> <20071025001926.GA14645@lenovo> <472047C3.20208@student.utwente.nl> <20071025121153.GA8231@lenovo> <20071026134528.GA6182@lenovo> <1193483219.6376.100.camel@toontown> <20071027153928.GA6118@lenovo> <47237509.8070405@student.utwente.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <47237509.8070405@student.utwente.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Subject: Re: getting started - docbook X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:33:45 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:27:37PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Farning schreef: > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:06:59PM +0200, Tobias Pflug wrote: > >> on 1: > >> with big picture I mean there should be a description of the > >> "system" with its main components. Currently i think there is too > >> little of that, and too many use-cases. ("In order to change xyz, > >> apply abc to 123"). > > > > I finished a rough draft of getting started this morning. I am going > > to let it sit for a week before looking at it again. Then I will > > rework as needed and submitte for review. > > > > In the mean time I am starting on a introduction chapter. This will > > be a very high level overview. Below is a first stab at the outline. > > Even if 99.9% if the people use OE to build linux stuff, it is able to > build nonlinux targets like bare-metal stuff for the msp430 > microcontroller and things like arm-wince-pe or arm-apple-darwin. That makes sense. Nothing special about the Linux kernel. For the purposes of documentation would you mind if we: 1 Studied the device - processer, memory, IO, devices.... 2 Studied a generic Linux distribution - kernel, libs, apps, packages, files system.... 3 Discussed how to use bb/oe to create a customized distro to run on a specific device. Once the user understands how to create a custom linux distro the theory can be extended to other OSs. By looking specifically a linux first, the reader has a lot of good, concrete, documentation available to them. > > 1.1. Linux ................................................ > > 1.1.1. Linux Overview ................... > > 1.1.2. Linux Arctoture ................... > > ^ typo > Sorry you will find lots of typos and sentences out of order until things start nearing a final draft stage. I have dyslexia so my drafts are pretty rough. For the final draft, I have someone read each sentence aloud so I can get it right;) Thanks David Farning