From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 7A36DE00AB0; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:05:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [54.187.51.154 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from lists.s-osg.org (lists.s-osg.org [54.187.51.154]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92034E00AB7 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.131] (199.50.23.95.dynamic.jazztel.es [95.23.50.199]) by lists.s-osg.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BFF7E462CB; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:04:57 -0700 (PDT) To: Andrei Gherzan References: <1438245251-20437-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <1438245251-20437-6-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <4731B312-4D73-4951-8E73-1579D8C54BD5@gmail.com> <55C1AE74.2030808@osg.samsung.com> <55C305EC.9030809@osg.samsung.com> <20150809230528.GL17962@resin> From: Javier Martinez Canillas Message-ID: <55C85B27.9020800@osg.samsung.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:04:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150809230528.GL17962@resin> Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Derek Foreman Subject: Re: [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 5/5] rpi-default-providers: Switch providers according to used gfx stack X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:05:06 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Andrei, On 08/10/2015 01:05 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:59:56AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> Hello Khem, >> >> On 08/06/2015 04:54 AM, Khem Raj wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas >>> wrote: >>>>> who defines the distro feature ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Distro features AFAICT are user defined options, you can for example have >>>> the following in your conf/local.conf: >>>> >>>> DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " vc4-gfx" >>> >>> I wasnt trying to learn about what DISTRO_FEATURES are, I was trying >>> to draw attention to the fact that meta-rpi being a BSP layer >> >> Ok, sorry. But I believe it's more productive to just do suggestions >> instead of asking rhetorical questions that can be misunderstood :-) >> >>> was trying to define a lot more than a BSP layer is supposed to do. So >>> if its a distro feature, I would like it to work as expected on other >>> machines besides raspberrypi. If thats not applicable then we should >>> rethink if it could be folded into MACHINE_FEATURES if it needs to be >> > > Khem definitely has a very good point. Maybe his way of putting it in words was > not that productive. But the core idea was definitely right: I don't want rpi > layer to introduce distro features. > Agreed. After Khem answers and reading about the MACHINE and DISTRO in the documentation, I understood that the changes were not correct. Thanks a lot to both of you for the clarification. > -- > Andrei Gherzan > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America