[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm PATCH v2 00/16] Machine overrides extender - reduce code duplication

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Tom Hochstein <tom.hochstein at nxp.com> wrote:
> This looks good, but what do you think of implementing the new items as MACHINE_FEATURES instead of overrides?

It should be possible indeed however, thinking about it, I think using
overrides offers an easier to use mechanism.

For example, using the overrides we can:

PACKAGECONFIG_append_imxgpu3d = " egl"

To use the MACHINE_FEATURES we would need to use:

PACKAGECONFIG_append = " $@{bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES',
'imxgpu3d', 'egl', '', d}"

Another benefit is that with the extender, we define the features on a
single place (imx-base.inc) and every board using the respective SoC
will use it. For machine features we would need to set it in every
board which is easy to get wrong.

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