From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:49:34 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Request for comments on packages for TI's OMAP3 and DM365 processors In-Reply-To: <87wrc2321l.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <1284746402-19186-1-git-send-email-pierreluc.simard@admetric.ca> <201110181123.03836.arnout@mind.be> <201110181433.26332.arnout@mind.be> <87wrc2321l.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20111018144934.2a9ed9b7@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:41:10 +0200, Peter Korsgaard a ?crit : > Arnout> Fortunately, TI's license allows redistribution in any form. > Arnout> So we are allowed to repackage the extracted source/binary > Arnout> code. That would be my preferred approach: download a .tgz > Arnout> from the buildroot mirror instead of going through the mess of > Arnout> running installer binaries. > > Arnout> Peter, is that an acceptable solution? > > Hmm, I would prefer not to, but if there's no other option.. There is a similar problem with the TI OpenGL drivers. The Graphics SDK available from TI website is a huge auto-extractable binary which contains (amongst a ton of crap) the binary driver. Some embedded Linux build systems (such as OpenBricks) have re-packaged only the necessary bits, have put those tarballs online and use them in their package recipes instead of the original TI stuff. Ideally, I'd prefer to use the original TI stuff as well, but the size of the downloads are horribly huge, and they keep moving things around on their website all the time. It is not even simple to find what it the latest version of what. TI's management of software support is really horrible. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com