[oe] Populating meta-oe with new patches on oe.dev

[Paul Eggleton]

On Saturday 16 July 2011 14:25:38 Russell Morris wrote:
> Can someone explain the differences between oe-core and OpenEmbedded, and
> in particular the various git repositories? 

Well, as I just mentioned in my reply to Paul I have produced a document 
describing OE-core here:

 http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/OpenEmbedded-Core

I don't know that it explicitly describes all the repositories but it does 
give some idea of the motivations.

> I ask because I'm struggling to get OE running on my h1940 (using
> openembedded), but I have a feeling that this may be the wrong repository to
> use ... but I just don't know ...

OE-dev provides support for h1940, yes, but I wouldn't expect that to be 
maintained in future. However, read on...

> I'm also not sure which ones are being worked on going forward (as I
> would like to submit changes once I get things working, but again don't
> know which repository is the right one).

So most of the new development should happen either in OE-core or some layer 
on top. Hopefully I will soon be able to release a layer called "meta-
handheld" that I have been working on which will provide machine support for 
h1940 amongst other handheld devices. If you're using OE-dev now that's OK, if 
you have any patches against OE-dev they will be easy to re-apply to meta-
handheld or whereever is appropriate.

Cheers,
Paul


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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre