[LEDE-DEV] fixing of image file names

[Piotr Dymacz]

Hi Jo,

On 01.12.2017 14:37, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> I still have here some concerns/thoughts:
>> 
>> 1. I don't know how to deal in above approach with region variant images
>> but I'm sure we should _somehow_ separate region code from boardname and
>> other parts of the image filename. IMHO, dash character won't work here.
>> 
>> 2. We have some boards versions like "v2.1" which with my above approach
>> would end up as "v2-1". Maybe we should keep dot as a valid character in
>> version part?
>> 
>> 3. Some of devices come in different RAM/flash configurations and in
>> case where common image can't support all of them, we include
>> information about RAM/flash variant sometimes only in image name and
>> sometimes in both the image name and boardname/compatible string. A
>> common and defined approach would be required for this as well.
> 
> A number of these issues can also be addressed by producing a Manifest
> file in the same directory which allows users to map unique board
> identifications to an appropriate image file.
> 
> This would also work for cases where multiple boards share the very same
> file.

That might be a solution but wouldn't it mean more meta data/information 
about devices included in building code? Or how could that manifest file 
be automatically generated otherwise?

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Cheers,
Piotr