[yocto] RFC: "Demo Use Cases" documentation for the web page

[Darren Hart]

On 10/21/2010 05:26 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Darren Hart
>> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 7:01 AM
>>
>>
>> Media Network Demo
>> ==================
>> We're looking to have a section on the web site for the demo that
>> explains what each use-case is and possibly how it can be replicated.
>> I'm taking the approach of describing each image. Consider the
>> following:
>>
>> The Yocto Project launch event at ECLF 2010 featured a
>> multi-architecture Media Network Demo. All the source for this demo is
>> available in the meta-demo git repository as a layer for the poky build
>> system.
>>
>> The following images made up the demo:
>> o poky-image-nas
>> o poky-image-mediatomb
>> o poky-image-rygel
>>
>> poky-image-nas
>> --------------
>> The poky-image-nas image boots your device as a network attached storage
>> device. It provides a DHCP service and an NFS server. We used this image
>> to store all our media.
>>
>> poky-image-mediatomb
>> --------------------
>> The poky-image-mediatomb image adds a UPnP content provider via the
>> mediatomb package. This image mounts the media share from the NAS and
>> makes it available to UPnP renderers.
>>
>> poky-image-rygel
>> ----------------
>> The poky-image-rygel image provides gupnp tools and the rygel media
>> renderer along with the sato desktop. The renderer can be controlled
>> locally or via any control point on the network. Several devices can run
>> this image and stream media from the mediatomb device.
>>
>>
>> Open Questions
>> --------------
>> o Is this more or less what we are looking for?
>
> boards list used in this demo.

Hrm... do we want to explicitly call them out? The point is that it was 
multi-architecture, but for some to recreate it, the point is that it 
doesn't really matter what hardware they have - poky can build for any 
of them.

What do others think, should we mention the specific boards in use at 
the demo?

>
> Also a simple figure is always more intuitive to catch the intention here. :-)
>
>> o Should we modify the mediatomb image to:
>>    o automatically mount a specific share from the NAS?
>>    o add something to the config to automatically scan the
>>      media share?
>> o The poky-image-rygel description needs to be updated as we finalize
>>    the package.
>>
>
> One thought is, could we convert this demo page into something more useful
> as the collection for various use cases on Yocto which can be contributed by
> any user, and then here UPnP is the 1st example?

I'm not opposed to the idea, but for now, let's just make it a page 
where people can go and get more detail about what we did for the demo 
and get them started on replicating it if they should so choose.

>
> Thanks
> Kevin


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Darren Hart
Embedded Linux Kernel