[oe] What is task-base?

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Marcin,

Sunday, October 15, 2006, 4:44:27 PM, you wrote:

> Today I added few sections into org.openembedded.documentation repository.
> One of them was about task-base and is available here:

> http://www.openembedded.org/user-manual&dpage=ch04s04

> I also wrote on my blog some stuff about it:

> http://www.hrw.one.pl/2006/10/15/openembedded-documentation-day/


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> TARGET_ARCH = "i686"
> IPKG_EXTRA_ARCHS = "x86 i386 i486 i586"
> 
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-x86"
> 
> MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 pci alsa usbhost"
> 
> require conf/machine/include/tune-athlonmp.conf
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   If it can be made so clean, why do we have so tangled configs for
many machines, at least for PocketPC-based? Do we need more strict
policy of what goes into machine configs and about the order of
variables? For example, I doubt it's good idea to have IMAGE_FSTYPES
in machine configs - how that can be machine's property? It's just
adhoc preference of conf author, which hardly will work for someone
another, so really should be set in local.conf.

   Also, it's good idea to group by some logical sections, for example,
machine properties rooted in hardware vs package selectors
(PREFERRED_PROVIDERs, etc) vs module autoload specification vs
something else.



> Have a nice reading.




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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com