[yocto] any point in a single machine recipe using a machine-specific file?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tomas Frydrych wrote:

> On 19/04/13 15:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> >
> >> On 19/04/13 15:15, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>> i'd wonder, if you're building for a different machine, why are
> >>> you including the meta-rpi layer?
> >>
> >> Because at a distro-level you often want to target different
> >> architectures.
> >
> >   yes, i appreciate that but, in *this* case, we're talking about a
> > single machine with a single architecture. i'm pretty sure we're
> > agreeing, i'm just pointing out that in this specific example, having
> > a machine-specific subdirectory is overkill.
>
> BSP layers are not stand alone entities, they can never assume that
> no other machines exist in the ecosystem they are pulled into. So,
> no, it is most definitely not an overkill. I am not sure how else to
> explain it, maybe fix up the RPI layer the way you intended locally
> and build yourself a Qemu image, see what happens to your interfaces
> file.

  no, no, i'm good with this -- is this point made emphatically
anywhere in the existing docs?

rday

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