[meta-intel] [PATCH 1/1] README: Documentation of hardware features

[Darren Hart]

On 10/3/14, 4:15, "Paul Eggleton" <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>On Thursday 02 October 2014 14:14:41 nitin.a.kamble at intel.com wrote:
>> From: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
>> 
>> Starting a new documentation section to describe the layer specific
>>hardware
>> features. At this point the intel-ucode machine feature is described
>>here.
>> In the future more such features will be described in this section.
>
>This looks fine to me, thanks for revising it.
>
>Speaking of the feature itself, I do wonder if going forward whether only
>a 
>MACHINE_FEATURES item is the best way to control this though -
>particularly if 
>the decision to include it or not is about image size or policy, users
>may 
>want to be able to control it at the distro or image level, and
>MACHINE_FEATURES is not meant to be changed outside of the machine
>configuration. Perhaps we can revisit this in 1.8? (I regret that I
>didn't take 
>the opportunity to get involved with this earlier, my apologies.)

Good point Paul - would you open a bug to this effect and target it to 1.8?

>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
>-- 
>
>Paul Eggleton
>Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center