On 20 January 2011 05:15, Scott Bambrough <scott.bambro...@linaro.org>wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 15:02 -0600, James Westby wrote: > > > An illustration of what I mean: if we add linux_image and ignore it, and > > then use it within Android hwpacks, someone with the old code will try > > and use one of those new hwpacks, and get an unbootable Android > > image. When that happens someone will say "we should have the tool warn > > people when it can't do what they ask", which we could have done now > > with a format bump, or by having a more complete plan than "ignore the > > field". > > I have to jump in here. Hardware packs for Android or ChromeOS seem > ridiculous to me. If we want to be accepted by mainstream developers > for these OS, then we need to conform to the accepted norm for that > community. Imposing hardware packs in these two projects is just likely > to get our efforts ignored. > > Scott > I agree with Scott. There is no such thing in Android. The Android build system creates a number of images. A boot image (depending of configuration), a system image and a user data image. A hardware pack would probably be a subset of the boot and system image. It would be hard to introduce a hardware pack for Android without doing major changes. We should not fork Android and become a new Android distribution. We should try to be as close to AOSP as possible. /Patrik > > -- > Scott Bambrough > Technical Director, Landing Teams > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev >
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