[oe] [PATCH 1/2] u-boot: added 2010.12 recipe (DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = -1)

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/12/31 Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>:
>> I thought it was preferred for some machine. Whats the use of a DP=-1
>> recipe? So you intend to use it.
>
> Yes. a DP=1 for pandaboard is added in the next patch.

ok

> I wanted to separate adding the recipe and enabling it for pandaboard
> (as I figured the latter might raise some controversy).
> I can also imagine other machines can use this (I need to check if it
> is good enough for kirkwood based hardware and I need some more
> testing for that before I move to this version).
> However, I wanted to make this available now, so others can also use it.
>
> BTW we have plenty of recipes with a DP=-1:
> grep DEFAULT_PREFERENCE */* | grep -- -1 | wc
>    421    1263   23484
> guess some of them are enabled for specific hw, but several of them
> seem to be quite pointless.
> E.g. for cups we have 6 recipes: cups_1.1.23.bb  cups_1.2.12.bb
> cups_1.2.7.bb  cups_1.3.8.bb  cups_1.4.3.bb  cups_1.4.4.bb
> The last three have DP -1, none is pinned or has a hw specific DP.

yes we should try to reduce them if possible.
>
> Frans
>
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