[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 5/5] rpi-default-providers: Switch providers according to used gfx stack

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:59:56AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Khem,
>
> On 08/06/2015 04:54 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
> > <javier at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> >>> who defines the distro feature ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Distro features AFAICT are user defined options, you can for example have
> >> the following in your conf/local.conf:
> >>
> >> DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " vc4-gfx"
> >
> > I wasnt trying to learn about what DISTRO_FEATURES are, I was trying
> > to draw attention to the fact that meta-rpi being a BSP layer
>
> Ok, sorry. But I believe it's more productive to just do suggestions
> instead of asking rhetorical questions that can be misunderstood :-)
>
> > was trying to define a lot more than a BSP layer is supposed to do. So
> > if its a distro feature, I would like it to work as expected on other
> > machines besides raspberrypi. If thats not applicable then we should
> > rethink if it could be folded into MACHINE_FEATURES if it needs to be
>

Khem definitely has a very good point. Maybe his way of putting it in words was
not that productive. But the core idea was definitely right: I don't want rpi
layer to introduce distro features.

--
Andrei Gherzan