Comment 4 for bug 878681

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Angus Ainslie <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:57 AM, James Westby <email address hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:49:21 -0000, Mattias Backman <email address hidden> wrote:
>>> Public bug reported:
>>>
>>> We should change the hwpack env_dd field to take a dd offset instead of
>>> Yes/No to be consistent with the other *_dd fields. The field is only
>>> used for Samsung boards.
>>>
>>> This is also an opportunity to remove the Samsung specific hwpack V2
>>> fields.
>>
>> Does that imply a format bump so that old clients won't do the wrong
>> thing with the new information?
>>
>
> Right now the env_dd is specific for Samsung boards and I never
> enabled it. From my point of view I don't see then need for a version
> bump.

We would end up with hwpacks that contain information that won't work
with l-m-c 2011.09 and 2011.10 even though they support format version
2.0. So to make that clear we need to bump the format version, I
think. That way the old client will refuse to handle the hwpacks with
the unsupported format version instead of just failing.

The boards which do not use the env_dd and Samsung_* fields can still
use the 2.0 format, only the Samsung hwpacks need to use 2.1. We do
need to document which fields require which format version.

>
> Angus
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878681
>>
>> Title:
>>  Change hwpack field env_dd to take an offset
>>
>> Status in Linaro Image Tools:
>>  Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>>  We should change the hwpack env_dd field to take a dd offset instead
>>  of Yes/No to be consistent with the other *_dd fields. The field is
>>  only used for Samsung boards.
>>
>>  This is also an opportunity to remove the Samsung specific hwpack V2
>>  fields.
>>
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>
>
> --
> Angus Ainslie <email address hidden>
> Team Lead, Samsung Landing Team
>
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>
> Title:
>  Change hwpack field env_dd to take an offset
>
> Status in Linaro Image Tools:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  We should change the hwpack env_dd field to take a dd offset instead
>  of Yes/No to be consistent with the other *_dd fields. The field is
>  only used for Samsung boards.
>
>  This is also an opportunity to remove the Samsung specific hwpack V2
>  fields.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-image-tools/+bug/878681/+subscriptions
>