[oe] disapprove 9cdbd45b5ff507c6e00fc91c08ec5e17929302f4

[Koen Kooi]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 13:22:32 schrieb Rolf Leggewie:
>> Koen,
>>
>> may I suggest that instead of screaming "bogus" at the top of your lungs
>> all the time and thus discrediting your fellow contributors' work you
>> start pitching in with quality assurance?  There sure are an awful lot
>> of stale bugs and unbuildable stuff in OE.
>>
>> I am well aware that COMPATIBLE_MACHINE in the definition of fso-image
>> is not the best solution.  At the current state of affairs, it is
>> correct though.  The image relies on $XSERVER which is not defined for
>> all machines in OE.  Those machines are incompatible with that image
>> definition.
>>
>> You're heartily invited to help fix OE to have a sane default for
>> $XSERVER for *all* machines.  I've started work on this but have not yet
>> finished.  Until that is done, removing compatible machine from the
>> image definition is a step backwards which is why I have disapproved
>> commit 9cdbd45b5ff507c6e00fc91c08ec5e17929302f4.
>
> Well, in this case I agree with Koen.  COMPATIBLE_MACHINE should never appear
> in an image recipe, e.g. I used to happily build fso-image for the Motorola
> EZX series and now i can no longer.
>
> Lets fix the XServer issue instead.

If you look at other image recipes using $XSERVER you'll notice they all 
have a weak assignment to fbdev on top.

The other smartphone people (magician, htc-universal, blueangel, etc) 
were wondering why they couldn't build fso-image anymore.