[meta-intel] [PATCH] Include recommended packges for all Intel machines

[Cal Sullivan]

On 03/21/2017 02:39 AM, Jussi Laako wrote:
> On 21.03.2017 01:59, Cal Sullivan wrote:
>> The addition of kernel-modules is going to greatly increase the size of
>> -minimal images for intel-corei7-64 and intel-core2-32, as these
>> configurations build a lot of modules. I think it would be best to leave
>> this one in only intel-quark.
>
> On the other hand, then lot of hardware won't work, because drivers 
> are built as modules... Pretty much only boot-critical drivers should 
> be built into the kernel. I find it especially strange if we have 
> linux-firmware installed but not modules, because most of the 
> firmwares are used by modules (WiFi drivers, etc). So if 
> kernel-modules is removed then also linux-firmware should be removed, 
> that is another large package and not boot-critical.
>
> IMO, there are better places to shave off size of minimal images than 
> cutting out hardware support.
>
Your mention of linux-firmware made me realize that I was incorrect with 
my earlier statement. MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS does not effect 
core-image-minimal, see here: 
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS

My apologies! In that case, this looks fine to me.

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Cal