From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:04:07 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] manual: add virtual package tutorial. In-Reply-To: <20140219141950.GA25812@pc-eric> References: <1392390673-30343-1-git-send-email-eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr> <20140219141950.GA25812@pc-eric> Message-ID: <20140223190407.GE32759@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Eric, All, On 2014-02-19 15:19 +0100, Eric Le Bihan spake thusly: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:34:41PM +0100, Samuel Martin wrote: > [...] > > > +[[virtual-package-tutorial]] > > > +How to add a virtual package > > > +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > + > > > +In Buildroot, a virtual package is a package whose functionalities are > > > +provided by one or more packages, referred to as 'providers'. > > > + > > > +For example, 'OpenGL ES' is an API for 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems. > > > +The implementation of this API is different for the 'Allwinner Tech Sunxi' and > > > +the 'Texas Instruments OMAP35xx' plaftorms. So +libgles+ will be a virtual > > > +package and +sunxi-mali+ and +ti-gfx+ will be the providers. > > > > The generic way of presenting the virtual/provider "infra" in Buildroot is: > > we want to use the virtual/provider infrastructure when there is one > > API, but several packages implementing this API, so we want an > > extensible mechanism allowing to choose what implementation we want in > > the target rootfs. > I will update the text in order to put emphasis on this idea. How are your changes going? There are quite a few improvements to the manual being upstreamed. Your changes would make for another nice addition. Do you think you could resubmit sometime next week, so this has a chance to go in before the release? Thanks for your work on this! :-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'