[OE-core] [RFC] meta-handheld

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 April 2011 00:09:38 Andrea Adami wrote:
>> I agree with Richard, for keeping it as meta- group.
>> About expectations, at least for Zaurus I don't see problems: vanilla
>> 2.6.38 kernel, actual udev, imminent move to xorg-xserver if kdrive is
>> finally doomed.
>>
>> Ipaq's seem suffering more bitrot...
>
> This is a problem, yes. Most of the iPAQs require 2.6.21-hh which is ancient
> and unmaintained and as we know presents difficulties with modern udev. Some of
> the iPAQs will work with mainline but many functions will be unavailable. This
> is something I hope can be sorted out - surely by now a lot of the "ip blocks"
> used within iPAQs and other PDAs are now in mainline already and all that's
> necessary is some plumbing...?
>
> Anyway, I'm concerned that if these machines get pushed out to some random
> repo it's only going to make things worse. I think we can mitigate the
> concerns about people rushing in only to find that the level of support for
> their device is less than they hoped simply by being crystal clear about each
> device's status in documentation (e.g. a wiki page), something which we have
> not been good at recently. (Am I volunteering to maintain this information as
> well? Naturally :) )
>

we can host it on its own repo and not under meta-openembedded
umbrella. As long as it is maintained its good


> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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> Paul Eggleton
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