On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Tom Rini trini@ti.com wrote:
Well, OE and Yocto allow to build fine-tuned target environments; they really don't have any new requirements as "standard" distros like Fedroa do.
Yeah, and it's also true that less per machine hacking you have to do with each new board, the easier it is (and the better the out of box experience it is on their side). We just synced up the environment on wandboard with how OE likes to see it. If it was instead they just had to provide an environment text file in the machine overlay or even just generate a default one (since the image is only going to have one kernel most likely), it'd be a win on that side.
Yes but OE is not the best reference here. There we can do whatever is need.
One thing I do miss is consistency. I've been trying to keep all Freescale boards I work with in sync, and it does make my life easier so I don't need to read the environment to understand how to accomplish what I need.
Simon's proposal for text version of default environment is a move to the right direction, it seems, as will easy reuse of environment among boards.
I think, specially for development kits, the default environment must be as flexible and generic as possible. Part of product development will be trimm it to fulfil product needs. I agree with Tom that we need to get a better and more general used default environment setting.