This thread received relatively negative feedback on the use of hwpacks along Android/ChromeOS images. I think we should defer this part, at least we have more experience with said images.
I do agree with the overall approach of doing things in the upsteam way. I'm less clear on how end-users will consume these images from Linaro, we can revisit these questions if we reach the point where we need new tools to manipulate these images.
(I'll remove the linux_image field from the spec)
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011, Scott Bambrough wrote:
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.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011, Patrik Ryd wrote:
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.