[LEDE-DEV] Layerscape package depending on libxml2

[Y.b. Lu]

Hi Michael,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Heimpold [mailto:mhei at heimpold.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 2:41 AM
> To: lede-dev at lists.infradead.org; Xiaobo Xie <xiaobo.xie at nxp.com>
> Cc: Y.b. Lu <yangbo.lu at nxp.com>; openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org; Hauke
> Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>; John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
> Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] Layerscape package depending on libxml2
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the mentioned PR included a few new packages. I don't know the layerscape
> platform, so I just want to understand it: these packages are all necessary to
> boot a "reasonable"
> system? And this is true for fmc, too?

[Y.b. Lu] fmc is an important userspace tool for layerscape which is frequently used and required by our key customers.
Fmc build and usage depends on several packages. They are tclap, fmlib, and eth-config which I added in the PR. Both fmlib and eth-config are only for layerscape.

> 
> Then one option would be to move libxml2 to "core openwrt".
> 
> If not, it would be an alternative approach to move the not really important
> packages to packages feed, and add the fmc package in the packages feed as
> well. This way, the dependency to libxml2 is solved automatically and the
> "core openwrt" stays as small as reasonable.
> 
> Or should we avoid packages in the package feed which have a strong
> platform dependency?

[Y.b. Lu] Thanks a lot for your good suggestion. Actually I tend to move libxml2 to core openwrt.

> 
> Just a few thoughts of mine,
> Michael
> 
> Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2018, 08:44:27 CEST schrieb Y.b. Lu:
> > Hi John and Hauke,
> >
> > May I have your suggestion about an old problem? The pull request was
> merged leaving out fmc package.
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> > I'd like to add this package fmc (frame manager configuration) for
> layerscape.
> > However it depends on libxml2 package which is not in the base feed. Must
> install feeds to enable and build it.
> > So I think I need some suggestion to find out a proper way to add this
> package.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yangbo Lu
> >
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