On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:45 AM, James Westby <james.wes...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:20:57 -0300, Christian Robottom Reis > <k...@canonical.com> wrote: >> That's true, and I didn't finish my original sentence but I would have >> pointed out that more complete hardware packs would contain other >> vendor-supplied binaries. Having a version for them described would be >> great to have for debugging reasons, but I guess it's available in the >> packaging? > > Yeah, they have a version number. Whether that's meaningful or not is up > to the packager. > > We now produce files like > > http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-hwpacks/omap3/20110607/0/images/hwpack/hwpack_linaro-omap3_20110607-0_armel_supported.manifest.txt > > to make it easy to see what's included without having to download and > extract the hwpack. > >> My main motivation is around the kernel (answering the question "what >> kernel is being used for this hwpack") though I guess it applies to >> anything we have source for. Apart from the kernel and bootloader, are >> we supplying anything in the hwpack we have source for? > > Taking a look at panda-x11-base it requests that it include: > > linux-image-linaro-omap linux-headers-linaro-omap > u-boot-linaro-omap4-panda x-loader-omap4-panda libegl1-sgx-omap4 > libgles1-sgx-omap4 libgles2-sgx-omap4 libopenvg1-sgx-omap4 > > so just kernel and bootloader.
+ graphics userspace and kernel driver ;) > > The actual hwpack contains a bit more (it contains everything that isn't > already in the rootfs that is needed to satisfy the dependencies of the > above too) just to mention: we probably want to regularly review hwpack contents and if we see that we pull in stuff that is not board specific it might indicate that we have to tweak our contents of rootfs (CCed Ricardo, so he can think about adding this to a regularly done review process of seeds and hwpack content or so). > > http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-hwpacks/panda-x11-base/20110607/0/images/hwpack/hwpack_linaro-panda-x11-base_20110607-0_armel_supported.manifest.txt > > It contains more that we have source for, but given that they aren't the > primary things that the hwpack is for I'm not sure that we need make it > as easy to go to the source (so knowing the version and where the > package was taken from to get you going is probably good enough for > now.) > > Therefore it looks like we mainly need to concern ourselves with the > kernel and bootloader as you suggest. Yes, we can start with this for now. Later we can extend that based on how well this goes. -- - Alexander _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
