On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:57:31 +0100, Loïc Minier loic.minier@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