[meta-freescale] [PATCH][meta-fsl-arm] imx53qsb: Remove firmware and features list

[Daiane Angolini]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>
>> This has been added, at that time, because Freescale used the adaptor
>> to do tests. I am not against removing this but several boards we have
>> included list the 'capability' of using WiFi / Bluetooth, not strictly
>> if it is at board or not.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts on this.
>
> I would prefer to pass in MACHINE_FEATURES only the features that the
> boards support natively.
>
> Otherwise, every board with a USB port, SDIO or PCIe port could list
> many possible features of devices that could be potentially attached
> to it.
>
> If we restrict MACHINE_FEATURES to only the devices that are built-in,
> then we have a more common approach to the various supported machines.

It is weird to see ~once again~ an old conversation taking place in
mailing list.

I remember to have discussed about this few years ago.

In my opinion, we have basically 2 kinds of boards: the products and
the references.

And, in my opinion, the reference boards should include WIFI in
MACHINE_FEATURES even if they don't have it physically in the board.

I mean, if board has a PCIe, it is one of the board goals to ~have
thing attached to it~, and one of the most often attached stuff is
WIFI or/and Bluetooth.

For products, it's straightforward that the board maintainer decides
which is the best, as this is a gray area.

Daiane
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabio Estevam
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