On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011, Amit Kucheria wrote: >> Am I correct in my understanding then, that this will address some of >> the issues I raised in >> https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/Specs/TestDrive ? >> Basically l-m-c won't have to be touched everytime we add new board >> support? > > Yes, I think one can say this. Unless the new board needs something > completely different than the older ones, e.g. a specific partition > layout or a new media type etc.
Sure. >> At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I still believe that >> another tool on top of l-m-c that takes care of the selection and >> download of correct image & hwpack and the combines & writes the image >> to SD is what we should strive for to increase the attractiveness of >> linaro images. > > I agree, and I would also hope we gain a GUI someday, but I don't think > it relates to changing the hwpack format? I am not sure. Here are a couple of things: 1. version information (to specifically allow or disallow old hwpacks) 2. a field denoting the SoC/board this hwpack is meant for. Vendor/board-specific options could then be sub-fields _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
