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

[Mikko Ylinen]

On 21/03/17 20:08, Wold, Saul wrote:
> 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

linux-firmware PKGSIZE according to pkgdata is ~86M.

>
>> 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.

MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS does not affect core-image-minimal
(MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_* do).

>
> 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.
>
>

The patch tries to make MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS setting more consistent
accross intel-* machines. Jussi has a good point that linux-firmware 
without kernel-modules
is pointless.

IMO, the config choice is whether to install MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS 
or not.

-- Mikko