[oe] What is task-base?

[pHilipp Zabel]

On 9/1/06, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
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> Koen Kooi schreef:
> > Marcin Juszkiewicz schreef:
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> >>> "wifi" feature need some work too. There are machines which does not have
> >>> Prism based wifi cards (so no need for hostap-utils) or do not support
> >>> WPA (wpa-supplicant is not needed then). h4000 has internal wifi on
> >>> ACX100 chipset (iirc) so it need only wireless-tools to have it working
> >>> (chipset related packages should be listed in machine config).
> >
> > Which leads to the question: "how should they be listed?". At the moment a lot of machines
> > just put those modules in BOOTSTRAP_*, which isn't going to work for things that don't use
> > task-bootstrap (the Ångström distribution for example). A few weeks ago I introduced the
> > 'BOOT_MODULES' variable for that, should we add that to all machines, or is there a nicer
> > way to do that?
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> And I ask again, before wasting my time implementing it: "should we add that to all
> machines, or is there a nicer way to do that?"

I wonder if this shouldn't be modularized a bit, the modules could be
assigned to different base tasks. The ipaq-pxa270.conf puts the
following modules into BOOTMODULES_RRECOMMENDS currently:

PXA270_MODULES = "g_ether g_file_storage g_serial gadgetfs pxa27x_udc \
                  snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss evdev mmc_block pcmcia hidp \
                  nls_cp437 nls_iso8859-1 nls_utf8 af_key"
HX4700_MODULES = "i2c-pxa hx4700_voltage acx hx4700_acx snd_hx4700_audio"

g_ether, g_file_storage, g_serial and gadgetfs are already in
task-base-usbgadget-rrecommends.
snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss are in task-base-alsa-rrecommends.
hidp is in task-base-bluetooth-rrecommends

This leaves us with

pxa27x_udc evdev mmc_block pcmcia nls_cp437 nls_iso8859-1 nls_utf8 af_key
i2c-pxa hx4700_voltage acx hx4700_acx snd_hx4700_audio

I propose to put pxa27x_udc in task-base-usbgadget-rrecommends (similar to
task-base-irda-rrecommends containing kernel-module-pxaficp-ir).
But what about the rest?

cheers
Philipp