From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B821C4C80B70 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:18:53 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 464911660591; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:18:38 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106891660595; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:18:01 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4D012B68.1000201@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:18:00 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101103 Fedora/1.0-0.33.b2pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lock References: <4CFF8C70.7010803@mlbassoc.com> <1291921712.6078.48.camel@scimitar> In-Reply-To: <1291921712.6078.48.camel@scimitar> Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: README.hardware X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:18:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/09/2010 12:08 PM, Joshua Lock wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 06:47 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote: >> This file seems quite out of date, in fact it's not been updated >> for 9 months :-( >> >> I don't know enough details to suggest a patch, but I think it >> would be useful to update it to reflect "today's Poky/Yocto" world, >> especially with the new visibility of the project. >> > > I agree, although I'm also wondering if it would be better to have this > information on the wiki where it can be more easily maintained by the > community. > > Or a balance? any machine in meta/conf/machine documented in > README.hardware and anything else on the wiki. > Wikis are great, but I tend to think of the Poky "checkout" tree as self-sufficient. It has the full manual, etc, already so forcing the user to have to go to the Wiki for such information (which is really only overview anyway) would not be ideal. A combination of hard files and Wiki would be OK as long as the README.hardware at least mentions the "well sanctioned" ports, which right now it does not. I also tend to err on the side of my [sadly] many customers that may have to work in non-internet-connected environments, so making them have to get to a Wiki to find such answers is not really acceptable. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------