[oe-issues] [Bug 2919] Create a distro for gumstix

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http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2919





--- Comment #9 from Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>  2007-09-04 21:20:50 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > is it *really* necessary to start a new distro just to eliminate one* var
> > (ANGSTROM_MODE) from local.conf?
> > 
> > * MACHINE.conf may set the image types
> 
> It's not just one var in local.conf (which yes, I want to eliminate from there,
> since users won't have any clue (and shouldn't need any clue) whether to choose
> glibc or uclibc) and image type, though I don't agree that image type should go
> in machine.conf -- it surely is a distro issue since there's nothing
> fundamental about the gumstix machine which says "use JFFS2" rather than "use
> CRAMFS", etc.

There is a thing like preferred format, since uboot can't load e.g. xfs images.



> Actually,
> maybe if I have a gumstix with minimal on-board flash I want angstrom, but if I
> have more flash, I want some openmoko like thing. 

Now you're confusing distro and images

The past shows that adding your own distro just leads to bitrot (see how bad
the gmustix (no, that isn't a typo) distro has bitrotted the last year.


>Strong dependency on angstrom is removed; soft dependency is still there,
> but if angstrom decides to head in a direction which isn't optimal for 
> gumstix, then there's less problem.

That's can be solved by something called communication :)


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