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

[Kamble, Nitin A]

On 10/10/14, 2:18 PM, "Darren Hart" <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>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.
>>
>>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.
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>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.

So what is the proposal? Disable machinesetuptool by default, and enable
it if you need it?
 
Nitin

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>Darren Hart
>Intel Open Source Technology Center
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