[oe] New arch in OE

[Richard Purdie]

Hi,

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 16:30 +0100, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> I would like to add a new arch to OE since I have been building a distro for 
> our new system using this system.

I think we need to clear up some terminology here!

To most OE devs an "arch" or architecture is the fundamental processor
type/instruction set. In your case this is ARM and OE already has good
ARM support.

I also doubt you want to create your own distribution since its a lot of
work and its more about policy rather than image content.

> The system is a robotics aimed custom-designed board which is based on a 
> i.MX31 SoC. I have a custom kernel, so I will need a new kernel recipe 
> (already exists, based on mx31ads kernel recipe by Liam) and I have added a 
> few custom config files for our needs (for USB networking config and drivers 
> for instance).
> 
> I would like to include all these changes to the OE "mainline" and become the 
> maintainer for this arch. How could I do this easily ?

The first step is to post what you have to the bugzilla, we can then
review it.

> My second question is more about the chosen distro. I have been using 
> Angstrom, because it is one the most well known disto based on OE and use the 
> minimal images of Angstrom to have a usable but light system. Is this good or 
> is there a distro that is better suited to my needs (for instance I don't 
> need for now avahi or these kind of things) ?

It sounds like you might want to create a customised image. The contents
of an image is not really related to the distribution.

> Thank you, best regards and I wish you all the best for 2008 (keep rocking on 
> with OE !)

Thanks!

Cheers,

Richard