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

[Wold, Saul]

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 11:39 +0200, 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.

This package is about 900K

> IMO, there are better places to shave off size of minimal images
> than 
> cutting out hardware support.
> 
You realize that core-image-minimal goes from 8.7M -> 59M by adding the
modules, so there is not other place to shave off size in the minimal
image.

40M is in /lib
6.8M in /boot

I think this is a case where the RefKit includes modules but it does
not go into meta-intel, this is more of a Distro/Image level choice
than a BSP level choice. So this is not a customer BSP in refkit.

Sau!