directfb: add help text to Config.in, note broken URL
authorJonathan Ben Avraham <yba@tkos.co.il>
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:37:56 +0000 (17:37 +0200)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 21:25:07 +0000 (22:25 +0100)
Adds descriptive help text to Config.in based on content from elinux.org and
Wikipedia. Notes that http://www.directfb.org/ has been broken for more than
five months and suggests using http://elinux.org/DirectFB instead.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Ben-Avraham <yba@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
package/directfb/Config.in

index 73425d3313be36d5871d9aa797dc359c74fffc6d..638e4e167bc9986f36c395b256407f13863ef917 100644 (file)
@@ -8,7 +8,13 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB
        select BR2_PACKAGE_FREETYPE
        select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
        help
-         http://www.directfb.org/
+         DirectFB (Direct Frame Buffer) is a set of graphics APIs implemented
+         on top of the Linux Frame Buffer (fbdev) abstraction layer. It is an
+         alternative to X11 with a smaller memory footprint that still has an
+         integrated windowing system. As of 4 October 2015, DirectFB's website
+         http://www.directfb.org/ is down. See alternative site listed below.
+
+         http://elinux.org/DirectFB
 
 if BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB