From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.169] helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9Hq-0001QF-Ck for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:40:56 +0200 Received: (qmail 25114 invoked by uid 1003); 30 Aug 2010 18:40:21 -0000 Received: from pool-96-240-180-126.ronkva.east.verizon.net (HELO ?192.168.1.167?) (philip@opensdr.com@96.240.180.126) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 30 Aug 2010 18:40:21 -0000 Message-ID: <4C7BFB14.2010009@balister.org> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:40:20 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4C7BF64A.6080408@balister.org> In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 216.168.135.169 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philip@balister.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: linux-omap-psp-2.6.32 breaks iscsi-target 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: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:40:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/30/2010 02:35 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > 2010/8/30 Philip Balister: >> 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