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> extremely bad integration with tools like Yocto. Is that really a feature? Having to use a mess of vendor kernels and overlays that patch anything from ffmpe
by KingMachiavelli 3y ago
> extremely bad integration with tools like Yocto.
Is that really a feature? Having to use a mess of vendor kernels and overlays that patch anything from ffmpeg to GTK to chromium just to build a 5 year old, EOL kernel version that still doesn't do what the board was advertised as supporting.
E.g does a SBC really support accelerated video decoding if it's only via patched libraries that are also 3 years old?
IMO the embedded Linux ecosystem seems to really hate Linux since it rarely follows standards (especially in user space) or upstream drivers, etc.
- leonheld 3y agoI can see where your generalisation is coming from, but again, it's a generalisation. There are a bunch of nice layers that build cleanly with Linus's tree against OE master no problems. That takes work, naturally. In one of the Yocto Summits I've been to there was literally a talk about "stop venturing the kernel". Everyone hates it. We really do fight against the major SoC vendors to stop not upstreaming stuff and it has been getting better :-)