[meta-intel] [Patch v2 00/11] machinesetuptool commits

[Darren Hart]

On 10/10/14, 11:46, "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com> wrote:

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>On 10/10/14, 9:40 AM, "Darren Hart" <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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>>Another concern is the statement below about not allowing for a default
>>configuration. Like other recent changes to meta-intel, this should be an
>>opt-in thing, and as such, the BSPs need to be able to provide defaults.
>>The intel-corei7-64 BSP works well as it is for a number of Intel
>>platforms, and people using those may prefer not to use the
>>machinesetuptool.
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>As mentioned earlier, it was needed for the reconfiguration of images. The
>target machine which is configured as a default target machine can be used
>for this purpose. Which makes the tool transparent to them. So I am not
>seeing any significant issue here. I think ability to reconfigure an image
>is a great benefit for development and testing.

The primary issue with eliminating the defaults from intel-corei7-64 and
providing the default via machinesetuptool, is we then make
machinesetuptool a requirement for that BSP for basic functionality. That
isn't acceptable in my opinion.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center