[maemo-developers] Ideas for Diablo and Elephanta: OpenEmbedded

[From: Rodrigo Vivi]

On 9/24/07, Sebastian Mancke <asteban at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> quim.gil at NOKIA.COM schrieb:
> > Hi Sebastian,
> >
> >> It would be
> >> great to have a working DISTRO configuration in OE which
> >> enables one to produce binary compatible packages.
> >
> > Is http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona going in the direction you wish?
> No. When I understand mamona right, it is an approach to create a
> completely free distribution for the N800 (as replacement of maemo).
> The package selection seems to be based on Angstroem and it uses an
> upstream gcc4.1 with binutils2.17.50.0.5, at the moment [0].

That's right, not only a distribution, but a SDK compatible with
future Maemo releases. Also our decision to use debian packages was
based on keeping the compatibility with Maemo.


> While mamona is a very nice thing, it does not help to produce packages
> for maemo. For this we would need at least a binary compatible gnu
> toolchain in OE (mainly gcc, binutils, glibc). Of course, it would be
> nice to have the hildon libraries buildable there, too. Whereby the
> later one should be easy, I can't estimate the effort for the toolchain.

Mamona doesn't have binary compatibility with Maemo yet because we
were thinking ahead, and hoping that when we have our first stable
release, maemo would be catching up on us in terms of package and
toolchain versions. By taking a look at Chinook Beta, we can see that
they are almost there. So, Maemo and Mamona will have very similar
packages at some point in a not so distant future.

And yes, Hildon is on our future plans too :)



>
> --Sebastian
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> http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/conf/distro/mamona.conf
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