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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2011-09-28 12:03:47 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-10-04 13:46:40 +0100
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documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml: Supported Distros updated
I updated the section on the supported distribution section by including a link to the wiki page that shows what distros we have tested and their status. (From yocto-docs rev: e66a18a13dc02af6a0846dd1ecf14aeafcbe5d61) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml30
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
index 49f2dd8..3c092e5 100644
--- a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
+++ b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
@@ -129,11 +129,10 @@
<listitem>
<para>A host system running a supported Linux distribution (i.e. recent releases of
Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu).
- <note>
- For notes about using the Yocto Project on development systems that use
- older Linux distributions see
- <ulink url='https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/BuildingOnRHEL4'></ulink>
- </note></para>
+ If the host system supports multiple cores and threads, you can configure the
+ Yocto Project build system to increase the time needed to build images
+ significantly.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The right packages.</para>
@@ -147,15 +146,23 @@
<title>The Linux Distribution</title>
<para>
- The Yocto Project has been tested and is known to work on the current releases minus one
- of the following distributions.
- Follow this <ulink url='https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Distro_Test'>link </ulink> for more
- information on distribution testing.
+ The Yocto Project team is continually verifying more and more Linux
+ distributions with each release.
+ In general, if you have the current release minus one of the following
+ distributions you should no problems.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Ubuntu</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fedora</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>openSUSE</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ For a list of the distributions under validation and their status, see the
+ <ulink url='https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Distribution_Support'>Distribution
+ Support</ulink> wiki page.
+ <note>
+ For notes about using the Yocto Project on a RHEL 4-based host, see the
+ <ulink url='https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/BuildingOnRHEL4'>BuildingOnRHEL4</ulink>
+ wiki page.
+ </note>
</para>
<para>
The build system should be able to run on any modern distribution with Python 2.6 or 2.7.
@@ -169,7 +176,7 @@
Refer to
<ulink url='http://openembedded.net/index.php?title=OEandYourDistro&amp;action=historysubmit&amp;diff=4309&amp;okdid=4225'>OE and Your Distro</ulink> and
<ulink url='http://openembedded.net/index.php?title=Required_software&amp;action=historysubmit&amp;diff=4311&amp;oldid=4251'>Required Software</ulink>
- for information for other distributions used with the Open Embedded project, which might be
+ for information for other distributions used with the OpenEmbedded project, which might be
a starting point for exploration.
If you go down this path, you should expect problems.
When you do, please go to <ulink url='http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org'>Yocto Project Bugzilla</ulink>
@@ -189,7 +196,8 @@
<note><para>
If you are using a Fedora version prior to version 15, you will need to take some
extra steps to enable <filename>sudo</filename>.
- See <ulink url='https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Configuring_Sudo'></ulink> for details.
+ See the <ulink url='https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Configuring_Sudo'>Configuring Sudo</ulink>
+ wiki page for details.
</para></note>
<para>
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