Re: linux-omap-psp-2.6.32 breaks iscsi-target

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 08/30/2010 02:35 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/8/30 Philip Balister<philip@balister.org>:
>> On 08/30/2010 01:47 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>>
>>> The current beagleboard angstrom and minimal distro's (and maybe
>>> others) use the linux-omap-psp_2.6.32.bb recipe to build the kernel.
>>
>> What is iscsi and why would I need it on the Beagleboard?
>
> http://stgt.sourceforge.net/
>
> the pacakge is from
> http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/
> It is used by tgt (http://stgt.sourceforge.net/)
>
> with it you can e.g. mount an iscsi disk.
> iscsi is for instance also supported by windows 7 and by various NAS-es.
> Its throughput is better than Samba or NFS.
>
> So for beagle it could act as mechanism to e.g. retrieve content from a NAS.

So the trade off is a kernel that has the best chance of fully 
supporting the OMAP3 peripherals, or attaching to a NAS that is windows 
centric.

The point I am trying to make is we can't expect all packages to build 
for every MACHINE/DISTRO combination. People have to make tradeoffs.

Philip