On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daiane, > > > On 05/19/2015 04:31 PM, Daiane Angolini wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Fabio Estevam <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Otavio, >>> >>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Otavio Salvador >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> This has been added, at that time, because Freescale used the >>>> adaptor to do tests. I am not against removing this but several >>>> boards we have included list the 'capability' of using WiFi / >>>> Bluetooth, not strictly if it is at board or not. >>>> >>>> Let me know your thoughts on this. >>> >>> >>> I would prefer to pass in MACHINE_FEATURES only the features that >>> the boards support natively. >>> >>> Otherwise, every board with a USB port, SDIO or PCIe port could >>> list many possible features of devices that could be potentially >>> attached to it. >>> >>> If we restrict MACHINE_FEATURES to only the devices that are >>> built-in, then we have a more common approach to the various >>> supported machines. >> >> >> It is weird to see ~once again~ an old conversation taking place in >> mailing list. >> >> I remember to have discussed about this few years ago. >> >> In my opinion, we have basically 2 kinds of boards: the products and >> the references. >> >> And, in my opinion, the reference boards should include WIFI in >> MACHINE_FEATURES even if they don't have it physically in the board. > > > In order to support all kinds of WIFI devices, it will also require all > kernel drivers for these devices to be enabled, and currently this is > not the case. > > Another issue is that leaving/setting the WIFI feature and kernel > drivers enabled implies that Freescale or the community board maintainer > has tested all these devices on the reference builds, which I doubt is > possible. > > In general, I tend to agree with Fabio that what's physically available > on the board should be supported out of the box. > > Just kindly sharing my thoughts, please feel to disagree with me.
Well, I don't have strong feelings about it. Let's decide which are the best way to document it so. This way we get it clear in the source code or documentation. Daiane > >> I mean, if board has a PCIe, it is one of the board goals to ~have >> thing attached to it~, and one of the most often attached stuff is >> WIFI or/and Bluetooth. >> >> For products, it's straightforward that the board maintainer decides >> which is the best, as this is a gray area. > > > Kind regards, > Nikolay -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
