On 10 May 2013 15:20, Paul Sherwood paul.sherwood@codethink.co.uk wrote:
On 10/05/2013 13:00, linaro-dev-request@lists.linaro.org wrote:
At Linaro we have many teams and some of them are using OpenEmbedded or will do it soon. One of reasons is lack of ARM big-endian distributions on a market.
I don't normally comment here, but I'm confused by the above statement... why does lack of big-endian distributions lead Linaro to use OpenEmbedded? fwiw we believe that Baserock is currently the only commercial ARM big-endian solution, but arguably baserock is not exactly a "distribution".
OpenEmbedded baseline was started for/by the ARMv8 bring up. Big-endian requirement came recently. We produce builds for our engineering effort and in current case, it's driven by LNG engineering.
In addition, we've got already OE baseline running with engineers familiar with it. For this reason, it's also more cost effective than using another distribution (ramp up, CI loop, etc..).
Nothing against baserock :)