[yocto] HOW DO I - new one added for EMGD and Crownbay

[James Abernathy]

On Feb 5, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Darren Hart wrote:

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> On 02/05/2012 11:44 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
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>> On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
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>>> On 02/04/2012 07:21 AM, jfabernathy wrote:
>>>> I just added and EMGD example to the How Do I in the wiki.
>>> 
>>> Jim, really appreciate your work here. For those of us not following
>>> quite as closely, please provide links to the pages you update so we
>>> don't have to go hunting for them.
>>> 
>> It's the How Do I link on the wiki page:
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>> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/How_do_I
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> I see. This Question heading seems a bit inconsistent with what you are
> actually doing. Step 1 of getting EMGD on Crownbay is adding alsa to
> MACHINE_FEATURES for a BSP called meta-mymachine?
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> This appears to be just trying to get commercial codecs working with
> accelerated graphics.
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> The reason I raise this, is that while it's good to have these sorts of
> "Tactical" guides, if we aren't careful they can dilute the
> documentation space and end up confusing users more than they help. The
> README for crownbay covers what is necessary to enable EMGD accelerated
> graphics. Please consider renaming the title to someting more consistent
> with what you're trying accomplish.
> 

Look, I'm not a documentation expert or understand what the project team is trying to accomplish with their documentation or wiki.  A user on the mailing list asked me to summarize what I did to get all the issues resolve related to media acceleration and decoder.  What I put in  the How Do I was a summation of the questions and answers that were in the email thread.   I can just as easily email that user the summary, if it's not appropriate for the wiki.

Please feel free to edit what I put there or remove it.

Jim A
 
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> Darren
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>>> I'm interested to see what more was needed for EMGD and Crownbay than is
>>> already in the BSP README.
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>>>> 
>>>> In my opinion, we need to think about breaking this one big edit up into 
>>>> individual How Do I's.  It would simplify editing and make getting to 
>>>> the individual How Do I's much easier and quicker.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know how to do that, but I think it needs doing.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim A
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>>> Darren Hart
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>>> Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
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> Darren Hart
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