On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 21:12 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 19:23, Paul Gortmaker > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I won't repeat what others have already said, but just to be clear, the > > kernel config for a platform is 100% independent from having "a rich > > command line experience" > > > > That is rootfs choice: "core-image-minimal" vs "core-image-full-cmdline". > > There's also the question of what the BSP adds to the images from the > machine definitions. Meta-intel in particular, adds *all* of > linux-firmware, which takes up a cool 900Mb on target. Compare that to > the modules (59Mb), or bzImage (11Mb). If you want to optimize the > disk footprint for a specific board, it has to start with installing > only the useful firmware; if you want to use the generic machine, then > optimizing the kernel footprint makes no sense in light of what the > complete set of firmwares consumes. No?
meta-intel may do that, it can do what it wants. OE-Core does not and has no plans to. We install what is needed for a given platform and my advice has always been machine definitions should specify what they need which includes firmware. That excess is the price meta-intel pays for trying to support "everything" and behaving more like a desktop distro would. I don't believe such products/devices are the ultimate target for most YP uses. I agree they can be useful for some PoC/testing work. Cheers, Richard
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