On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:57:31 +0100, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011, James Westby wrote: > > How would this interact with the proposal for storing some of this > > information in hwpacks? > > This came up; basically linaro-image-tools + hwpacks are one of the > many copies of this information which we have around. It will take > some time to share this stuff across debian-cd, debian-installer, > flash-kernel, linaro-image-tools + hwpacks etc. > > Basically, we want all these tools to separate code and data, and we'd > like data to be shared. Right now, linaro-image-tools has both code > and data, and moving the board-specific data to hwpacks would be a win. > Eventually we could generate the hardware pack from this common data, > or we might change linaro-image-tools to read the common data from > where it lives, but it seems further away.
One of the issues here I guess is: do we know what all the data required is? My impression (from a step removed, admittedly) is that adding support for new boards to l-m-c still tends to require code changes and not just data changes. Hopefully this will stabilize over time though. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
