User talk:Scientist.St/OpenEmbedded

Introduction
This is the currently reworked version of the wiki article OpenEmbedded, feel free to add reliable content and/or discuss the content or layout of this rework page.

Please do not remove contents without permission, but feel free to add reliable content and references.

This page is still work in progress, content and references may change over time. Regards --Scientist.St (talk) 12:09, 11 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The rework has been merged, if you want to contribute to this article feel free to do so on the main page of the article. Regards --Scientist.St (talk) 13:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

History of OpenEmbedded
Holger Schurig here: OpenEmbedded came a bit after Bitbake. If I remember things correctly, I actually started the idea-gathering and programming of BitBake (a python written, dependency based auto-builder for software) before OpenEmbedded existed. Correct: I used concepts from Gentoo's ebuild. But bitbake recipes have more: because the embedded devices vast in numbers, yet similar, I added a per-variable override things, where the architecture or machine name can override things. Like QT_DIR = /opt/qt;   QT_DIR_pxa = /usr/lib;    QT_DIR_rt4000 = /usr/local/lib. I also added the concept of overrides. However, I didn't develop bitbake to a point where it was REALLY useable, other chimed in and made bitbake usable. Also only a very few bitbake recipes are from me. Bitbake + recipes + classes -> OpenEmbedded. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.128.36.15 (talk) 07:17, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok I will try to add the history of Openembedded soon, regards --Scientist.St (talk) 06:10, 24 August 2011 (UTC)