[yocto] RFC: User configurable recipe features

[Koen Kooi]

Op 12 okt. 2011, om 20:44 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:

> On 10/12/2011 8:55 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>> 
>> On 10/11/2011 04:49 PM, Tim Bird wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2011 11:41 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>> As part of working on meta-tiny, I've come across a need (want?) to
>>>> present users with the ability to select some set of features in a local
>>>> configuration file that will impact the build of the image and a set of
>>>> recipes.
>>> 
>>> Can you tell me more about meta-tiny?  this is the first I've heard
>>> about this (sorry if discussion went by on the mailing list and I
>>> missed it), and I'm very interested.
>> 
>> 
>> Tim,
>> 
>> I'll be presenting things in more detail at ELCE, Friday @ 3:45 PM in
>> the Kepler room. The summary is that I have received a lot of questions
>> along the lines of "How small of an image can I build with Yocto?".
> 
> I guess yocto needs to define another profile(distro) to really demonstrate how small it can get. There are other distros based on oe-core e.g. micro and even slugos where the image sizes are really small slugos/uclibc image is around 2.7M eglibc based image is 3.5M

And don't forget angstrom, that scales all the way down to an fbdev gui fit inside 80kiB.