[yocto] update mechanisms

[Stefano Babic]

Hi Patrick,

On 09/12/2016 16:13, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> Thanks for contributing directly to the page. It's great to see this
> done collaboratively.
> 
> On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 23:38 +0100, Stefano Babic wrote:
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> On 06/12/2016 19:45, Philip Balister wrote:
>>> On 12/06/2016 06:11 AM, Lopez, Mariano wrote:
>>>> I agree with you, that we need to have a section per project, the table
>>>> is too limiting.
>>>
>>> I just skimmed the page and the table format isn't working well with the
>>> length of the blocks of text.
>>>
>>
>> Agree - I think it is better to have a section per project.
> 
> That always has been the goal, and I now updated the page accordingly.

Page is really better now :-)

> I
> tried to summarize the key aspects of each mechanism in the table
> itself. That's something that I haven't seen elsewhere and something
> that the page can  I tried to be as fair and objective as possible,
> please shout if I messed something up or you don't agree with my
> summary.
> 
> In particular the "complexity" column is a bit subjective. Stefano, I
> hope you don't mind that I did not quite buy the "easy to use"
> characterization of swupdate ;-)

No worry...and I have not written myself. It was inserted by Mariano, so
it looks like that swupdate at least for Mariano is "easy to use".
I think it is correct to point out that customization is required.

> For a system that is as flexible as
> swupdate, I'd expect a more difficult learning curve and some need to
> customize the system before using it, so I added a "(but requires
> customization!?)" comment to that statement.

Agree.

> 
> Kristian, I added a comment that Mender requires U-Boot. That is
> correct, isn't it? I understand that this restriction allows you to
> implement things like automatic rollback, but it's worth mentioning that
> this comes with that limitation.

Best regards,
Stefano

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