From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [143.182.124.21]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFE8E0030B for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:01:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from azsmga002.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.35]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Feb 2012 08:01:22 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="63777397" Received: from unknown (HELO envy.home) ([10.255.14.217]) by AZSMGA002.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Feb 2012 08:00:21 -0800 Message-ID: <4F2FF8F6.7060601@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:59:50 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Abernathy References: <4F2D4D12.3060500@gmail.com> <4F2ED655.5020808@linux.intel.com> <2779C8B7-F034-4F86-8BCF-0CC6374AD803@gmail.com> <4F2EE44C.7090809@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: HOW DO I - new one added for EMGD and Crownbay X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:01:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/06/2012 05:00 AM, James Abernathy wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > >> >> >> On 02/05/2012 11:44 AM, James Abernathy wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Darren Hart wrote: >>> >>>> On 02/04/2012 07:21 AM, jfabernathy wrote: >>>>> I just added and EMGD example to the How Do I in the wiki. >>>> >>>> Jim, really appreciate your work here. For those of us not >>>> following quite as closely, please provide links to the pages >>>> you update so we don't have to go hunting for them. >>>> >>> It's the How Do I link on the wiki page: >>> >>> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/How_do_I >> >> I see. This Question heading seems a bit inconsistent with what you >> are actually doing. Step 1 of getting EMGD on Crownbay is adding >> alsa to MACHINE_FEATURES for a BSP called meta-mymachine? >> >> This appears to be just trying to get commercial codecs working >> with accelerated graphics. >> >> The reason I raise this, is that while it's good to have these >> sorts of "Tactical" guides, if we aren't careful they can dilute >> the documentation space and end up confusing users more than they >> help. The README for crownbay covers what is necessary to enable >> EMGD accelerated graphics. Please consider renaming the title to >> someting more consistent with what you're trying accomplish. >> > > Look, I'm not a documentation expert or understand what the project > team is trying to accomplish with their documentation or wiki. A > user on the mailing list asked me to summarize what I did to get all > the issues resolve related to media acceleration and decoder. What I > put in the How Do I was a summation of the questions and answers > that were in the email thread. I can just as easily email that user > the summary, if it's not appropriate for the wiki. > Please don't take the above as a criticism of the "How Do I" concept, as I said at first, I appreciate you doing it - I understand it takes some considerable additional time to publish it. The goal is clearly to make things easier for others when they attempt what you're doing. I saw something in there that might not fit the goal and raised it as a point of improvement, that's all. > Please feel free to edit what I put there or remove it. I've CC'd Scott R. to review and see if he might care to adjust things a bit. I certainly don't want to remove it :) -- Darren > > Jim A > >> -- Darren >> >>> >>>> I'm interested to see what more was needed for EMGD and >>>> Crownbay than is already in the BSP README. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> In my opinion, we need to think about breaking this one big >>>>> edit up into individual How Do I's. It would simplify >>>>> editing and make getting to the individual How Do I's much >>>>> easier and quicker. >>>>> >>>>> I don't know how to do that, but I think it needs doing. >>>>> >>>>> Jim A >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ yocto mailing >>>>> list yocto@yoctoproject.org >>>>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >>>> >>>> -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto >>>> Project - Linux Kernel >>> >> >> -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - >> Linux Kernel > -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel