[oe] linux-omap-psp-2.6.32 breaks iscsi-target

[Philip Balister]

On 08/30/2010 02:49 PM, J. L. wrote:
> Why is it bad to expect all packages build for all the machine/distro
> ? I would think that would be a more "ideal" situation especially if
> its a supported machine and distro

It is not bad. But we have a lot of packages and the people maintaining 
stuff have limited time. Hopefully the TI kernel guys can find a way to 
fix the issue Frans pointed out.

Philip

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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Philip Balister<philip at balister.org>  wrote:
>> On 08/30/2010 02:35 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>>
>>> 2010/8/30 Philip Balister<philip at balister.org>:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/30/2010 01:47 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The current beagleboard angstrom and minimal distro's (and maybe
>>>>> others) use the linux-omap-psp_2.6.32.bb recipe to build the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> What is iscsi and why would I need it on the Beagleboard?
>>>
>>> http://stgt.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> the pacakge is from
>>> http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/
>>> It is used by tgt (http://stgt.sourceforge.net/)
>>>
>>> with it you can e.g. mount an iscsi disk.
>>> iscsi is for instance also supported by windows 7 and by various NAS-es.
>>> Its throughput is better than Samba or NFS.
>>>
>>> So for beagle it could act as mechanism to e.g. retrieve content from a
>>> NAS.
>>
>> So the trade off is a kernel that has the best chance of fully supporting
>> the OMAP3 peripherals, or attaching to a NAS that is windows centric.
>>
>> The point I am trying to make is we can't expect all packages to build for
>> every MACHINE/DISTRO combination. People have to make tradeoffs.
>>
>> Philip
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