[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH v2] imx-base.inc mxs-base.inc: Add imx MACHINEOVERRIDES

[Daiane Angolini]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Ann Thornton
> <Ann.Thornton at freescale.com> wrote:
>> It is true that mx6 can be used today but soon there will be mx7 and mx8 and
>> the list will get longer.  Also qoriq and automotive will be added in which
>> we will want to exclude from i.mx.  There are recipes, images, and
>> packagegroups that currently don't need to check for the machine that will
>> need to coming up and bbappends that will be needed to differentiate between
>> machines. imx would be a convenience that will be useful in the near future.
>> The alternative is a long list of i.MX machines.
>
> As I said, I understand the value of this addition and I think this
> should go in. However I want to make sure people understand that this
> will be rarely used. Several things will end with a huge list of SoCs
> as this should be used ONLY when it is i.MX specific and globally
> supported by all the SoCs.

I'm not against including imx now. I think it does not hurt what we have today.

However, meta-freescale is a perfect opportunity to really rework the
SOC_FAMILY tree (a never used meta layer is the ideal timing to make a
huge change on SOC_FAMILY as it's really needed.

And this includes the discussion around packagegroup being part of the BSP.

Daiane
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