Re: [poky] [PATCH 2/4] conf/fragments: add fragments for qemux86-64 and qemuarm64

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 21:48, Richard Purdie
<[email protected]> wrote:

> What bothers me about this is that we have multiple files, each with a
> single similar config line in them. It implies we need to create a new
> machine config fragment for every machine, which to be honest, is
> madness.
>
> Would it be better if the config/setup code understood what something
> like "machine/qemux86-64" or "distro/poky" meant and did something
> magic with that?

Haha, yes. I've been stuck in the subject so long that I no longer see
the forest for the trees.

I think bitbake-config-build should be extended to have
'list-machines/set-machine/list-distros/set-distro', and then
bitbake-setup would call out to that, like it already does for
fragments. There's already 'show-machines' in bitbake-layers, which
should be renamed and moved, so that bitbake-layers is less
over-stuffed with sub-commands.

Alex