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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Tom Hochstein <tom.hochstein at nxp.com> wrote:
>> From: Otavio Salvador [mailto:otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 8:45 AM
>> To: Tom Hochstein <tom.hochstein at nxp.com>
>> Cc: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>; Prabhu Sundararaj <prabhu.sundararaj at nxp.com>; meta-freescale Mailing List <meta-
>> freescale at yoctoproject.org>; White Weng <white.weng at nxp.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm PATCH v2 00/16] Machine overrides extender - reduce code duplication
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Tom Hochstein <tom.hochstein at nxp.com> wrote:
>> >> From: Otavio Salvador [mailto:otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br]
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 7:40 AM
>> >
>> >> Adding DISTRO things in a machine file is a clear indication something
>> >> is wrong. Anything related to distro features cannot be change in
>> >> machine level or it makes it incompatible across different machines.
>> >
>> > Yes, I wasn't sure if that would be a problem. Lauren has advocated for adding distros, and I guess that would be a better location for this.
>> What is the latest status on that?
>>
>> A BSP must be DISTRO agnostic; I won't merge something that does not
>> preserve that.
>
> Okay, then that is a problem. Can we push these hardware features into poky so that they are treated identical to the other COMBINED_FEATURES?

DISTRO agnostic does not mean Poky; at O.S. Systems we have a number
of custom distros based on OE-Core.

As I said, machine features are not intended for this use.

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