From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [212.60.202.196] (helo=mail.kernelconcepts.de) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MNYia-00071K-VT for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:53:50 +0200 Received: from [92.227.209.84] (helo=[192.168.1.177]) by mail.kernelconcepts.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MNYWd-0007HW-Es for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:41:28 +0200 Message-ID: <4A510FDA.7010103@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:40:58 +0200 From: Florian Boor User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Subject: Re: OpenEmbedded goals? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:53:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Mart R. wrote: > I have been exploring CEngstrC6m and thus OpenEmbedded lately. The > building process works nicely out of the box, but running it on some > low end embedded system is out of the question because it is just too > slow and bloated for my taste. Stripping it down is not an easy job > either as I would have to edit countless of *.bb files. you might want to take a look at the "micro" distribution in OE and its images. The initrd images are another example for tiny images. > - Out of the box cross-compile environment to whatever system you can > - imagine, > - Vanilla *.bb files for distributions to use, so they would not have > to duplicate all that work that has already been put into creating > those rules. > It would also mean scrapping all the distribution configurations out > of OE, doing away with all non-essential patches from the BitBake > recipes, etc. I don't see a reason to do this. OE summarizes a lot of knowledge about how to (cross-) build whole distributions. Why should we strip away a part of this? I see it takes a while to get along with the complexity of OE.... but would you be happier with less know how and less examples how to do things correctly? Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de http://www.kernelconcepts.de/en