On 1/16/2014 1:12 PM, David Bagby wrote: > Frankly any dir structure that separates, and thereby recognizes, that > the LCNC world is not all PCs will be a good improvement. If we get that > as a min, I'm (probably) happy for 2.6.
I'm all for running on something other than an x86, but I don't think platform has much of a place in the configuration directory structure. By way of example, the various mesa configurations should run as-is on an ARM board with PCI and a mesa card. IMHO, the difference between configurations boils down to three major factors: 1) The basic machine type, ie: 3-axis mill, lathe, scara, etc. 2) The specific machine details, ie: is this a general example with hopefully sane defaults, or for a very specific Machine XYZ V1.2 with appropriate scales, limits, etc. 3) The driver(s) used to actually talk to the hardware. In my mind, the most important selection criteria is the machine type, so I'm not really excited by the fact that for all but exact machine configurations the main selection key is the interface. To me it makes more sense to have: 3-axis mill mesa parport pico PRU lathe mesa parport pico PRU ...than to have: mesa 3-axis mill lathe parport 3-axis mill lathe pico 3-axis mill lathe PRU 3-axis mill lathe ...but I can see merits to both. Selecting by_interface does make it easier to keep all the file details for one interface together (and away from the other configurations) which will help the user once they've selected an initial configuration and start trying to edit files. Either way, I don't really think the ARM/x86 platform key belongs in the configuration selector at all. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net
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