On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 13:22 +0200, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Hey there > > > > As a result of a series of bugs around linaro-image-tools and daily > > images, it seemed a sensible approach to solve this class of issues > > would be to move more data into hardware packs rather than hardcoding > > stuff in linaro-image-tools. > > > > Guilherme, Steve Langasek, and Michael Hudson were all interested in > > the idea, so Michael convinced me to start a wiki page with some notes: > > https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Specs/11.05/HardwarePacksV2 > > > > I'm sending this for others to get the chance to raise issues with > > hwpacks since we don't want to change the format too frequently. > > Am I correct in my understanding then, that this will address some of > the issues I raised in > https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/Specs/TestDrive ? > Basically l-m-c won't have to be touched everytime we add new board > support?
Not specifically, no. But the current rewrite of l-m-c just completed by the infrastructure team does. > > At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I still believe that > another tool on top of l-m-c that takes care of the selection and > download of correct image & hwpack and the combines & writes the image > to SD is what we should strive for to increase the attractiveness of > linaro images. This is still a good idea to simplify things for novice users IMHO. However this should be a new tool that used l-m-c to accomplish its tasks. Scott
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