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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:03:32 -0400, James Westby <james.wes...@canonical.com> 
wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:26:46 -0400, James Westby <james.wes...@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
> > There is also one larger question, which is that I disagree that we
> > shouldn't provide anything that will go in a hardware pack in the linaro
> > images. I think that having the images be useful by themselves has lots
> > of benefits.
> > 
> >   - Being able to quickly spin up an image in QEMU makes for easier
> >     testing.
> >   - Requiring a hardware pack for every operation will make some things
> >     more tedious.
> >   - If everything in a hardware pack becomes more consolidated then
> >     hardware packs probably become less useful.
>     - Not having a flag day where suddenly our images aren't installable
>     and hwpack-install has to work well, and before that date we can't
>     test hwpack-install on the images we produce.
> 
> Having not had anyone convince me that stripping our images is the right
> thing to do I have carried on attempting to write the spec without
> requiring this. There will be a few issues, such as ensuring that the
> kernel we want is the one that boots, but we have that problem on hwpack
> upgrades anyway, so it doesn't go away by stripping the images.
> 
> I have
> 
>   https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/UserPlatforms/Specs/10.11/HardwarePacks
> 
> to a state where I am happy to start implementation now. Feedback on the
> spec is still welcome, and things will still be subject to change. In
> particular there are still a number of TODOs in the spec where I don't
> know how to proceed, but I believe that none of those block us starting
> implementation of other parts.
> 
> Is the current status quo to create specs under the "linaro" project on
> Launchpad? I'll create a spec for this so that we can track work items
> for it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 

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