[yocto] RFC: User configurable recipe features

[Khem Raj]

On 10/12/2011 12:30 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Op 12 okt. 2011, om 20:44 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:
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>> On 10/12/2011 8:55 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> On 10/11/2011 04:49 PM, Tim Bird wrote:
>>>> On 10/10/2011 11:41 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>>> As part of working on meta-tiny, I've come across a need (want?) to
>>>>> present users with the ability to select some set of features in a local
>>>>> configuration file that will impact the build of the image and a set of
>>>>> recipes.
>>>>
>>>> Can you tell me more about meta-tiny?  this is the first I've heard
>>>> about this (sorry if discussion went by on the mailing list and I
>>>> missed it), and I'm very interested.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim,
>>>
>>> I'll be presenting things in more detail at ELCE, Friday @ 3:45 PM in
>>> the Kepler room. The summary is that I have received a lot of questions
>>> along the lines of "How small of an image can I build with Yocto?".
>>
>> I guess yocto needs to define another profile(distro) to really demonstrate how small it can get. There are other distros based on oe-core e.g. micro and even slugos where the image sizes are really small slugos/uclibc image is around 2.7M eglibc based image is 3.5M
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> And don't forget angstrom, that scales all the way down to an fbdev gui fit inside 80kiB.

indeed.