[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Jean-Christian de Rivaz]

Kees Jongenburger a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc at eclis.ch> wrote:
>> Aside of this, I am puzzled to see a project that it targeted to
>> support both X86 and ARM processors without even considering the
>> multiarch future. Sound crasy to me. Debian have accumulated a
>> immense amount of knowledge on how to do this the right way and
>> there have made many changes in the package management to handle
>> multiarch. RPM packaging is completely outdated about this.
> 
> Hi, Debian does handle "multiarch" ok in repositories and such but
> wake up and look around it is not special or anything. Debian is far
> far behind when is comes to "multiarch" and real device support. They
> only provide  unoptimized generic armv5 code
> http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ and the way debian works (no cross
> compiling) makes it a pain to port to other platforms.

You have to see not only the current state but also the goal. Only
Debian will be ready for multiarch is a foreseeable future. Others
distributions have just missed the point that all the current way to
build embedded system will be obsolet soon. In the near future, there
will be no difference between your PC and you phone from the
distribution point of view. So a SDK for embedded system will be
pointless. Even the word "embedded" will be dropped.

It's perfectly doable to start a new armv7 port into Debian if it make
sense to do it.

> now try and compare that to something like poky
> http://www.pokylinux.org/

I work with SB2, OE, Buildroot and LTIB. For me there are all already
something of the past.

Regards,
 
Jean-Christian de Rivaz