[oe] Coordination for updating the XBMC recipe

[Paul Menzel]

Dear OE folks and especially Koen,


Am Montag, den 15.08.2011, 21:35 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> Scott Davilla from the XBMC project asked me for build instructions for
> XBMC for the PandaBoard.
> 
> Currently the XBMC recipe does not build for the PandaBoard
> 
> 	COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "omap3|ti816x"
> 
> and 'virtual/egl' is not available for `MACHINE = "omap4430-panda"` in
> oe.dev. Additionally the recipe is quite outdated.
> 
> This is a good occasion to update and clean up the current XBMC recipes.
> 
> I have some patches locally and I build test the latest commits for
> `MACHINE = "beagleboard"` unfortunately still for oe.dev. On LinuxTag
> you told me that you also had some patches but they conflicted with my
> pushed commits.
> 
> So what is the best way to go forward? Did you already do some work on
> this so that no wheel is reinvented? Please publish your patches
> somewhere. That would be awesome.
> 
> Without knowing your answer I propose the following.
> 
> 1. I try to clean up my patches and push them right to oe.dev? (I could
> also publish a tree on Gitorious where I am already registered.)
> 
> Unfortunately I am only able to build test XBMC as I do not have a setup
> BeagleBoard or PandaBoard currently and no time to set them up.
> 
> 2. Not having used meta-oe/oe-core it would be great if you could port
> those to meta-oe.
> 
> Then building XBMC should be a piece of cake for interested persons.

some more questions.

3. oe.dev: When I rename `xbmc_svn.bb`, which uses Git already, to
`xbmc_git.bb` what is the policy regarding `PR`? Just set it back to r0?

Koen, your comments are much appreciated!


Thanks,

Paul
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