From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 2F473E00BAE; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:17:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message Received: from www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (www.dynamicdevices.co.uk [89.200.136.37]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73DBE00B78 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675AE27E036; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:17:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at lennoab2.miniserver.com Received: from www.dynamicdevices.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.dynamicdevices.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VFrlqqBM4Ff2; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpc32-live22-2-0-cust59.17-2.cable.virginm.net [82.36.253.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8381B27E02F; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53973D6F.70201@dynamicdevices.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:16:31 +0100 From: Alex J Lennon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marlon Smith References: <1402354370.9385.9.camel@marlon-Z68X-UD3H-B3> <20140610103736.GC24880@gmail.com> <539718B9.9030604@mindchasers.com> <1402419009.2402.4.camel@marlon-Z68X-UD3H-B3> In-Reply-To: <1402419009.2402.4.camel@marlon-Z68X-UD3H-B3> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Why use Yocto? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:17:11 -0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040100040500040609010308" --------------040100040500040609010308 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/06/2014 17:50, Marlon Smith wrote: > Wow, thanks everyone for the excellent replies. I am a developer and > not much of a legal guy, so pointing out the licensing issues with > Ubuntu was especially helpful. > > It sounds like we are going to choose Yocto for our product. Further to the excellent points made by others, presumably Freescale are providing commercial support on Yocto for i.MX6 now too. I know they have a developer day coming up in the UK shortly at which Yocto is on the agenda. I also suspect they will have some "ready to run" binaries somewhere for download, although I can't spot them in the walled garden. They usually do, and that might even be enough for you, depending on your needs, and how custom the board variant is... Regards, Alex --------------040100040500040609010308 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On 10/06/2014 17:50, Marlon Smith wrote:
Wow, thanks everyone for the excellent replies.  I am a developer and not much of a legal guy, so pointing out the licensing issues with Ubuntu was especially helpful.

It sounds like we are going to choose Yocto for our product.

Further to the excellent points made by others, presumably Freescale are providing commercial support on Yocto for i.MX6 now too.

I know they have a developer day coming up in the UK shortly at which Yocto is on the agenda.

I also suspect they will have some "ready to run" binaries somewhere for download, although I can't spot them in the walled garden.

They usually do, and that might even be enough for you, depending on your needs, and how custom the board variant is...

Regards,

Alex

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