From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.169] helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORMw8-00058u-5J for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:12:16 +0200 Received: (qmail 26161 invoked by uid 1003); 23 Jun 2010 10:07:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?172.30.0.245?) (philip@opensdr.com@127.0.0.1) by mail.geekisp.com with SMTP; 23 Jun 2010 10:07:24 -0000 Message-ID: <4C21DCD6.4090509@balister.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:07:18 +0200 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <20100623103600.77c5a6d9@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> <20100623110315.16293a95@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100623110315.16293a95@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 216.168.135.169 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philip@balister.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: introducing a new architecture/machine; policy ? (and a question) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:12:19 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/23/2010 12:03 PM, Graeme Gregory wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:54:21 +0200 > Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > >> 2010/6/23 Graeme Gregory: >>>>>> Also I don't feel empowered to make changes in distribution >>>>>> specific files. >>> >>> Why not, chances are Angstrom maintainers would be quite happy for >>> you to patch angstrom*.conf if you ask us. >>> >>> Graeme >> >> distribution != angstrom >> There are more distributions out there. Right now, toolchain selection is done in distro files not machine files. I agree this is not the clearest approach, however adding the toolchain selection to the machine files may have unexpected side effects. I would ask DISTRO maintainers to add the needed overrides, and explore alternative methods as a separate effort. Philip >> > I think the other distros are almost as friendly as us :-) > > Anyway the sane-* files are free for all with Acks. > > Graeme > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >