[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH] broadcom-nvram-config: Add compatible machine setting

John Weber rjohnweber at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 11:27:12 PDT 2013


OK.  I understand now.  Sounds good.

On 3/25/13 12:31 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:34 PM, John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Otavio -
>>
>> I thought the point of setting:
>>
>> BROADCOM_FIRMWARE = "INVALID"
>>
>> was to throw an error on purpose in case someone added the package to their
>> machine and did not modify the recipe to provide a corresponding nvram file
>> for their machine?
>
> It will do in rootfs generation as linux-firmware-INVALID won't be instalable.
>
>> Doesn't adding COMPATIBLE_MACHINE remove that error?
>
> Yes but the reason I added it is because bitbake try to checksum a
> nvram.txt file which does not exist to other machines and then do a
> warning during recipe parsing.
>
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