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Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving xorg.conf to seperate .bb file/package
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On 12-11-2008 11:00, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 09:48 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>> At the moment xorg.conf is handled within the xserver-xorg .bb file.
>>
>> As xorg.conf varies per machine this will effectively make xserver-xorg
>> machine specific which sort of defeats the purpose of a module xorg.
>>
>> My suggestion is to move xorg.conf out of xserver-xorg. Then add a
>> RRECOMMEND_${PN} = "xserver-xorg-conf" to xserver-xorg.
>>
>> Is this a sane plan?
>
> Yes, that sounds like a splendid plan.  I would even hope that some
> (maybe most) machines can cope without having an xorg.conf at all
> nowadays.

With a machine using a plain framebuffer xorg.conf shouldn't be needed 
(or empty) anymore, for other machines like omap based ones an xorg.conf 
is needed to point to xf86-video-omapfb. So, yes, most machines in OE 
can do without an xorg.conf :)

regards,

Koen