[yocto] Replacing HOB in Build Appliance for YP 1.9

[Stewart, David C]

+1

On 4/30/15, 9:06 AM, "Georgescu, Alexandru C"
<alexandru.c.georgescu at intel.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>In 1.9 HOB is intended to be deprecated by Toaster functionality. This
>means that Build Appliance also must be changed. Since HOB is started
>automatically in BA in order to help users get started quickly with YP, I
>have the following proposal for updating BA in 1.9 and to replace HOB:
>
>
>* Update current BA implementation in order to support Toaster (maybe few
>patches needed to be included in the image in order to run Toaster)
>* If Toaster is enabled in BA then the user might be able to run Toaster
>from his host machine, or if BA is installed on a remote server, just
>access the server via HTTP.
>* this should be an easy solution to implement and maintain the BA
>functionality.
>
>There are solutions like Docker that were previously discussed, but my
>opinion is that first of all Docker is limited to Linux only. Secondly it
>will need much more QA effort (support at least 4 distros that YP
>currently supports) and more failure prone for specific Docker
>configurations.
>
>Regards,
>--
>Alexandru Georgescu
>Yocto QA Engineer
>SSG/SSD Open Source Technology Center Romania
>
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