[oe] What is task-base?

[Koen Kooi]

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pHilipp Zabel schreef:
> On 9/1/06, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
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>> Koen Kooi schreef:
>>> Marcin Juszkiewicz schreef:
>>> <snip>
>>>
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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?
>> 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?

Yes, what about the rest?

regards,

KOen

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