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 1Oq9xy-0006Ue-8I for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:24:28 +0200 Received: (qmail 23527 invoked by uid 1003); 30 Aug 2010 19:23:53 -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 19:23:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4C7C0548.5030803@balister.org> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:23:52 -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> <4C7BFB14.2010009@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=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 19:24:29 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/30/2010 02:49 PM, J. L. wrote: > Why is it bad to expect all packages build for all the machine/distro > ? I would think that would be a more "ideal" situation especially if > its a supported machine and distro It is not bad. But we have a lot of packages and the people maintaining stuff have limited time. Hopefully the TI kernel guys can find a way to fix the issue Frans pointed out. Philip > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Philip Balister wrote: >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openembedded-devel mailing list >> Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org >> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >