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From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:46:27 -0500
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Subject: Re: why does meta-intel crownbay-noemgd.conf not require "meta-intel"?
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On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 05:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> perusing sample machine conf files and BSP definitions, looking for
> nice examples to use in a class in a couple weeks, and i noticed the
> following oddity under meta-intel/meta-crownbay.
> 
>   while crownbay.conf contains:
> 
> require conf/machine/include/tune-atom.inc
> require conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
> require conf/machine/include/meta-intel.inc
> require conf/machine/include/meta-intel-emgd.inc
> 
>   crownbay-noemgd.conf contains only:
> 
> require conf/machine/include/tune-atom.inc
> require conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
> 
>   i would have thought the latter would still need to require
> "meta-intel.inc" for consistency.
> 
>   i'm sure if i poked around for a few seconds, it would make sense
> but, just from a visual point of view -- if someone is reading the
> files trying to understand how to define a BSP -- it looks confusing,
> no?
> 

Not really - meta-intel is itself a separate layer, and crownbay-noemgd
doesn't need anything from it, so doesn't need the includes for it.

crownbay.conf does need at least emgd and related packages from
meta-intel so includes meta-intel.inc and meta-intel-emgd.inc.

Tom

> rday
>