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Glenn: +Category:Linux

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Tim Bird at 16:48, 24 September 2007

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‎Case Study 1: Add Leon Woestenberg experience

Chris at 12:59, 14 July 2007

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Table Of Contents:

== Description ==
[[Open Embedded]] is the name of a project which seeks to provide embedded linux distributions, built from scratch.

=== Rationale ===
While the distribution used for most embedded systems has many custom elements, there are significant portions
of the software on consumer electronics products which could be standardized and utilized from the same source.

Open Embedded may represent the closest thing there is to a de-facto standard embedded distribution of Linux.

== Resources ==
=== Projects ===
http://www.openembedded.org/

=== Specifications ===
There are no CELF specifications related to Open Embedded.

== Downloads ==
=== Patch ===
- [Patch for 2.6.xx is *here* (often, the [[Patch Archive]])]

=== Utility programs ===
[other programs, user-space, test, etc. related to this technology]

== How To Use ==
See the Open Embedded wiki, at:
http://www.openembedded.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi

== How to validate ==
[put references to test plans, scripts, methods, etc. here]

== Sample Results ==
=== Case Study 1 ===
=== Case Study 2 ===

== Future Work/Action Items ==
Here is a list of things that could be worked on for this feature:
-
I met with Phil Blundell and Tim Ansell at Linuxconf Australia and discussed
some possible ways the forum might sponsor Open Embedded.
Here are some ideas:
- create an installer, which automatically copes with weird distros
(I had problems getting OE installed, but then I use Mandrake)
- it should validate that all required packages are installed,
and if not present, install them
- OE has a somewhat long list of pre-requisites
- sponsor a conference/retreat of the core OE developers
- do nightly builds (and testing?) of various full-distro recipes
- do improvements to bitbake to solve the memory/performance
problems.
- need to identify if these are python issues (dependency graph
memory consumption seems to be)
- try to make bitbake less fragile
- have a way to freeze/sign a recipe collection for a known-good
distro?
- canonicalize workarounds to issues caused by autoconf badness
(inability to support cross-building)

Tim and Phil both said that contract money might not influence their
contribution levels (they are maxed out now). Changing their
focus with money might be detrimental (it might just take the fun
out of it.) So, outside contractors seems like the better way to
go for now.

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 See the Open Embedded wiki, at:
 http://wiki.openembedded.net
 == How to validate ==

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 == Description ==
-[[Open Embedded]] is the name of a project which seeks to provide embedded linux distributions, built from scratch.  Open Embedded is not, itself, and embedded Linux distribution.  Rather it is a meta-distribution.
+[[Open Embedded]] is the name of a project which seeks to provide embedded Linux distributions, built from scratch.  Open Embedded is not, itself, an embedded Linux distribution.  Rather it is a meta-distribution.
 (See also: [[poky]])
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 == Resources ==
 === Specifications ===
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 == How To Use ==
 See the Open Embedded wiki, at:
-http://www.openembedded.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi
+http://wiki.openembedded.org
 == How to validate ==

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 == Description ==
-[[Open Embedded]] is the name of a project which seeks to provide embedded linux distributions, built from scratch.
+[[Open Embedded]] is the name of a project which seeks to provide embedded linux distributions, built from scratch.  Open Embedded is not, itself, and embedded Linux distribution.  Rather it is a meta-distribution.
 === Rationale ===
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 of the software on consumer electronics products which could be standardized and utilized from the same source.
-Open Embedded may represent the closest thing there is to a de-facto standard embedded distribution of Linux.
+Open Embedded may represent a possible software base that could become a de-facto standard embedded distribution of Linux.
 == Resources ==
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 === Specifications ===
 There are no CELF specifications related to Open Embedded.
 == How To Use ==
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 out of it.)  So, outside contractors seems like the better way to
 go for now.
 [[Category:Development Tools]]

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 == Future Work/Action Items ==
-Here is a list of things that could be worked on for this feature:
+Tim Bird met with Phil Blundell and Tim Ansell at Linuxconf Australia in 2005 and discussed
-−
-I met with Phil Blundell and Tim Ansell at Linuxconf Australia and discussed
 some possible ways the forum might sponsor Open Embedded.
 Here are some ideas:
- - create an installer, which automatically copes with weird distros
+* create an installer, which automatically copes with weird distros (I had problems getting OE installed, but then I use Mandrake)
- (I had problems getting OE installed, but then I use Mandrake)
+** it should validate that all required packages are installed, and if not present, install them
-   - it should validate that all required packages are installed,
+*** OE has a somewhat long list of pre-requisites
-   and if not present, install them
+* sponsor a conference/retreat of the core OE developers
-     - OE has a somewhat long list of pre-requisites
+* do nightly builds (and testing?) of various full-distro recipes
- - sponsor a conference/retreat of the core OE developers
+* do improvements to bitbake to solve the memory/performance problems.
- - do nightly builds (and testing?) of various full-distro recipes
+** need to identify if these are python issues (dependency graph memory consumption seems to be)
- - do improvements to bitbake to solve the memory/performance
+* try to make bitbake less fragile
- problems.
+** have a way to freeze/sign a recipe collection for a known-good distro?
-   - need to identify if these are python issues (dependency graph
+* canonicalize workarounds to issues caused by autoconf badness (inability to support cross-building)
-   memory consumption seems to be)
- - try to make bitbake less fragile
-   - have a way to freeze/sign a recipe collection for a known-good
-   distro?
- - canonicalize workarounds to issues caused by autoconf badness
- (inability to support cross-building)
 Tim and Phil both said that contract money might not influence their

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 == Sample Results ==
 === Case Study 1 ===
 === Case Study 2 ===