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

[Tom Hochstein]

> 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?

Tom