[oe] Machine config generator (FOSDEM idea)

Sledz, Steffen sledz at DResearch.DE
Fri Feb 13 15:04:02 UTC 2009


> I was talking during FOSDEM with some developers and one of 
> things which 
> I was asked about was 'how to create machine config' (usually 
> question 
> was other but had this sense).
> 
> OE developers usually know that machine config is simple but 
> tell that 
> to Joe Random who only knows that his board use s3c2443 etc. 
> So idea was 
> to create simple few steps wizard which will ask few questions and 
> produce machine config as result. More work would be required on 
> creating kernel recipe because kernel can be from svn/cvs/git 
> or tarball 
> + quilt patchset etc...

A good start could be <http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Adding_a_new_Machine>.

This is also the place where i would like to see the results of this discussion. :)

Steffen




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