Re: [meta-ti][master][PATCH v1] conf: machine: j784s4: Move ti-eth-fw-j784s4 to EVM conf

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 09:43:31AM -0500, Andrew Davis wrote:
> On 4/15/26 6:58 AM, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > Can I ask TI once more to rethink this considering that meta-ti is used
> > by users of your SoC, but not of your EVK/SK ?
> > 
> 
> We do think a lot about external users of meta-ti, we even made a whole
> split out reference layer (meta-beagle) that we treat like a normal vendor
> layer so that we can more easily identify when we are making bad assumptions
> that only apply to our EVM/SK boards. Yes we do still sometimes get it wrong,
> and so we are very happy that you are providing the feedback that you have
> and helping point out those cases.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken the initramfs topic is the only outstanding case
> where what goes in the SoC file vs board files is still open and we
> should continue to try to find the best solution.
> 

Thanks a lot Andrew, I really appreciate this message. I do not mind at
all bugs or sending patches or having some temporary workaround in our
layers, I was concerned we were not on the same page on the main topic
here.

Your message solves all of these concerns.

In case you want to have a look at Toradex OE machine conf files
they are here [1], and here [2] you can find as an example verdin-am62.

Francesco


[1] https://git.toradex.com/meta-toradex-ti.git/tree/conf/machine
[2] https://git.toradex.com/meta-toradex-ti.git/tree/conf/machine/verdin-am62.conf