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".
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W dniu 10.05.2013 14:20, Paul Sherwood pisze:
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?
Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu - none of them has big-endian ARMv7a support which we could use as source of binary packages.
fwiw we believe that Baserock is currently the only commercial ARM big-endian solution, but arguably baserock is not exactly a "distribution".
From Baserock website:
"Welcome to the Baserock open source project. Baserock aims to be a great way to build appliance systems with Linux. The current releases target x86_32 and x86_64 for ease of development, but we're working on support for ARM based devices as well"
"we're working on support for ARM based devices as well" does not convince me to try yet-another-build-system. I saw too many of them during last few years and some of them disappeared after a year.
I use OpenEmbedded because I know it and we have other engineers at Linaro familiar with it. It can build whatever combination of ARM (v4-v8) with many tuning combinations and already covers our needs when it comes to source packages.
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 :)
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