[OE-core] Wiki seems dead. is openembedded wiki still active?

[Leandro Dorileo]

Hi Paul,


On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:25:13PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 August 2011 10:59:42 Klausfpga wrote:
> > Am I using the correct url? (it's at least the url also mentioned in
> > wikipedia)
> > 
> > Is the Wiki just temporarily down and I was just unlucky enough to try
> > to connect at the wromg time?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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:


The wiki frontpage could be updated stating the current OE status at least
stating the transition, I`m a newcomer and took some time trying the wiki howtos.
I just figured out things after I read all the mailing list archives :)


> 
>   http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/OpenEmbedded-Core
> 
> For new development work we would strongly recommend OE-core as a base, 
> allowing you greater flexibility as well as avoiding some legacy cruft.



This is also important to highlight somewhere, maybe the wiki front page as well.


Regards,

Leandro Dorileo

> 
> > - 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.
> 
> > - 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 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 
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