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

[Daiane Angolini]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg> wrote:
> Hi Daiane,
>
>
> On 05/19/2015 04:31 PM, Daiane Angolini wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> In order to support all kinds of WIFI devices, it will also require all
> kernel drivers for these devices to be enabled, and currently this is
> not the case.
>
> Another issue is that leaving/setting the WIFI feature and kernel
> drivers enabled implies that Freescale or the community board maintainer
> has tested all these devices on the reference builds, which I doubt is
> possible.
>
> In general, I tend to agree with Fabio that what's physically available
> on the board should be supported out of the box.
>
> Just kindly sharing my thoughts, please feel to disagree with me.

Well, I don't have strong feelings about it.

Let's decide which are the best way to document it so. This way we get
it clear in the source code or documentation.


Daiane

>
>> 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.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Nikolay