Re: Wiki seems dead. is openembedded wiki still active?

[Klausfpga <klausfpga@gmail.com>]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your detailed answer.

On 08/23/2011 06:25 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Yes that's the correct link, although the website is temporarily down;
> the
> appropriate people have apparently been informed and hopefully can fix it soon.
> Ok so just bad timing :-(
>
> However the website/wiki can still be accessed under 
> http://wiki.openembedded.org.
>  
>> What I wanted to find out on the wiki:
>>
>> - what branch / tag to checkout to have a consitant verison
>> I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. 
>>
What I wanted to know was what to checkout best:
 origin/master/  might not be a good idea, at least last time I tried
this I often
fell into inconsistent  releases

 origin/stable/2009 on the other hand had it's latest change in July 2010


>> FYI OE is in the middle of a transition of sorts; we're moving to a more 
>> modular metadata structure based around a smaller common core (OE-Core). For 
>> more information please see this page:
>>
>>   http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/OpenEmbedded-Core
>>
This looks interesting. Thanks for this info. I will read more on the wiki.
>> - what to use as starting point for a minimalist x86 system being able
>> to run under qemu (x86)
> "Minimalist" is somewhat subjective. OE-core alone provides a "qemux86" 
> machine target, a distro-less basic configuration and a "core-image-minimal" 
> image that provides a basic console-only system without package management.
>
Well with minimalist I meant kernel + base file system + busybox +
package management

I will look at qemux86 and core-image-minimal

>> - How to add a gnu toolchain package to my minimalist target system
> I think this is a case of adding "tools-sdk" to your IMAGE_FEATURES; someone 
> else might be able to offer more help here.
>
>> - what to use as starting point for a minimalist arm11 system being able
>> to run under qemu (x86)
> Same as above except use "qemuarm" as the machine.
>
>> - what is the recommended way to run bitbake in a 64 bit environment
>> (psyco is not working). Is pypy an option?
> There's no specific recommended way; the psyco warning was just a warning and 
> in any case if you're using a recent version of BitBake (as you need to for 
> OE-core) then Psyco support has been removed and you won't get the warning.
>
What I meant here is: Can pypy or somethign else be used in order to
accelerate the
execution of BitBake.

>> - what are the correct mailing lists for such questions
> For OE-classic discussion as well as layers above OE-core, use the 
> openembedded-devel mailing list. For OE-core use this list (openembedded-
> core). I suspect the openembedded-core list will merge into openembedded-devel 
> at some point in the near future.
>
>
Thanks ance more