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

[Kamble, Nitin A]

On 10/3/14, 4:15 AM, "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.)

Paul,
   Thanks for the response. To me it feels best to leave it to machine
configuration space. Handling from image or distro configuration space
does not seem right. If the machine need/can use updated microcode then
that reason is valid for all kinds of distro or image configurations. It
is very processor specific decision, and it is best handled in the machine
configuration.

Cheers,
Nitin


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