[oe] MACHINE_FEATURE changes

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Fri Nov 20 14:33:44 UTC 2009


On 20-11-09 15:24, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Can someone please explain to me what
>>
>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=1bfa409a3a28cee60c4800d3caf33ce3f100d4ca
>> is trying to accomplish? It looks like this makes task-base unusable on
>> om-gta0X, am I right?
>
> FSO/SHR based distros use fso-apm rather than "apm".
> Using PROVIDES in fso-apm however means that it's pulled into other
> distros too.

Which we do not want.

> We could do this with a virtual/apm but that would mean we need to set a
> preferred provider for all other distros too.

So instead you just broke all other distros.

> So the least intrusive change seemed to remove apm from om-gtaX.

Except that you just broke all other distros.

> Mickey (informally) agreed with me, and as this change is very limited
> in scope, it went in. It is more distro than machine-specific I have to
> admit.
>
> Better suggestions on how to achieve this are welcome.

Change task-base and task-boot to use APM =? "apm" and set APM = 
"fso-apm" in your distro.

Please revert the cset since it breaks every distro except SHR[1].

annoyed,

Koen





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