[yocto] HOW DO I - new one added for EMGD and Crownbay
Darren Hart
dvhart at linux.intel.com
Mon Feb 6 07:59:50 PST 2012
On 02/06/2012 05:00 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
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> 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?
>>
>> This appears to be just trying to get commercial codecs working
>> with accelerated graphics.
>>
>> 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 don't take the above as a criticism of the "How Do I" concept, as
I said at first, I appreciate you doing it - I understand it takes some
considerable additional time to publish it. The goal is clearly to make
things easier for others when they attempt what you're doing. I saw
something in there that might not fit the goal and raised it as a point
of improvement, that's all.
> Please feel free to edit what I put there or remove it.
I've CC'd Scott R. to review and see if he might care to adjust things a
bit. I certainly don't want to remove it :)
--
Darren
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> 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.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto
>>>> Project - Linux Kernel
>>>
>>
>> -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project -
>> Linux Kernel
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Darren Hart
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