[OE-core] [RFC] meta-handheld

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 apr 2011, om 18:57 heeft Graeme Gregory het volgende geschreven:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:04:37PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've discussed the possibility with a few people on IRC of creating a meta-
>> handheld layer for support of older handheld devices - this would include 
>> Zaurus, iPAQ, SimPad, etc; possibly even EZX phones if they aren't in a layer 
>> of their own. These machines share a fair amount of commonality and I don't 
>> think that they will all survive if each one has to be put into a BSP of its 
>> own. Response so far seems to be positive but I'd like to hear thoughts from 
>> others on this.
>> 
>> I have access to many of these devices, and this is something I am prepared to 
>> maintain on my own time, although I would appreciate help from others. I have 
>> the basis of a layer from what was left in oe-core and meta-extras but quite a 
>> lot of it would need to be brought over from OE.
>> 
>> If people agree that this is a good idea, the next question would be where to 
>> host it - is this something that could be within the meta-oe repository?
>> 
> Grabbing all of these barely supported machines into their own layer sounds
> like a good plan to me.
> 
> Id suggest just hosting it on gitorious, if its inside OE then there is the
> magic assumption from the public that they should work (which is what happens
> now). Then people get really dissapointed when I tell them getting it to work
> is likely to be a hard slog.

I agree with Graeme on the hosting bit. I also have all the devices you mentioned near my desk, so testing should be easy :)

regards,

Koen