[meta-intel] [PATCH V2 3/3] meta-romley: DPDK v1.7.0 support for Romley machine config

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 September 2014 03:21, Ong, Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong at intel.com> wrote:
>> On their own, the DPDK packages are useless as the user needs to compile
>> their application with them.  What you're basically doing is forcing a library onto
>> *every* image for that machine, even ones that don't want to use DPDK.
>> Please don't do that.
>
> So, reading from your feedback, I think that you are suggesting to create bbappend file for each of the target image type
> (core-image-sato & core-image-sato-sdk) with IMAGE_INSTALL += "dpdk dpdk-examples" ...
> Just want to be sure we get your idea correctly.
>
> These are the two images that CID customers are using from Yocto Project.

I'm suggesting that nobody will be taking e.g core-image-sato and be
able to work out of the box with dpdk installed, as they'll need a
toolchain to build their own application against dpdk. Let's just not
install it in the images, and a user will either write a recipe for
their image or create a SDK image to which they can trivially add
dpdk.

Ross