On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 13:22 +0200, Amit Kucheria wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
Hey thereAs 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