Re: building Yocto for Pandaboard

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 02/09/2012 08:30 AM, jfabernathy wrote:

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>> Richard
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> When you look at Yocto project from a marketing point of view, which is
> not something the open source community usually concentrates on for
> obvious reasons, it would be a very positive message to be able to talk
> about, and demonstrate with examples of taking the same project and
> moving it from one architecture to another with minimal effort, as long
> as both architectures supported the key features like media playback
> acceleration, 3D, sound, HDMI, etc.
> 

Actually, at least some of us in the open source community pay close
attention to marketing.

> While hardware companies tend to cringe when you make it too easy to
> move back and forth, the reality is, if you have a high volume product
> you can't justify or afford to throw excess performance, thermals,
> power, and cost where it is not needed.  For example a cheap digital
> signage application that just throws advertisement, or menu data on the
> screen could be done with an ARM processor like OMP3/4, but if you had a
> higher end product that needed to do extensive video analytics for
> customer profiling and advertising effectiveness, you're going to want a
> Core i5/i7.  It would be of great benefit to take the Yocto project that
> did the digital sign on the ARM and quickly get it up and running on the
> Core i5 and then concentrate on the analytics application.
> 
> I think this portability is a better sell, if it's all Yocto.  We all
> know that really smart people can move around from different Linux
> versions and development methods, but it's an easier sale to a customer
> management when you say it can all be done on Yocto and that it's easily
> demonstrated.

Yocto is becoming a very overloaded word at the moment. But the key idea
is that we can focus on building out from oe-core to support our
products using the same tools, no matter what the product scale. From
very simple devices to products that resemble their desktop brothers.

Philip

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