[oe] [PATCH 1/5] Use common files for AT91SAM9 configuration

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/10/18 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
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> On 18-10-10 15:38, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>> Marcin Juszkiewicz skrev:
>>> Dnia sobota, 16 października 2010 o 14:50:02 ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com
>>> napisał(a):
>>>
>>>> +++ b/conf/machine/include/at91-2.6.30.inc
>>>> +++ b/conf/machine/include/at91-2.6.32.inc
>>>
>>> Do you plan to duplicate that file with each kernel you will produce?
>>> Create include/at91-sam9.inc and put it there.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>> This is to allow different kernel versions for different AT91 chips.
>> This allows both a "stable" version, and a development kernel
>> to be easily handled.
>>
>> The file defines (amongst other things) the
>> * kernel version,
>> * u-boot version
>> * at91bootstrap version
>> so you need one file per version.
>
> NAK! Machines don't get to decide versions! Please revert that commit
> and come up with a better way, e.g. default_preference in the recipes or
> distro include files.

Well machines are probably better capable to decide what u-boot and
kernel version is best for them.
One alternative (which is probably by more yukky) is to create an
kernel-at91 recipe and define PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel
I don't feel that is a better scenario

Frans


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