[meta-freescale] Please review the proposal of FSL Yocto layers reorg

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:21 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
> <B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Luo Zhenhua-B19537
>> <B19537 at freescale.com> wrote:
>>> Hello Otavio and all,
>>>
>>> The FSL Yocto layers reorg proposal is attached, can you please take a look?
>>> Any comment and suggestion is welcome and appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> 1) Don't cross post to internal and external mailing lists.
>>
>> 2) I still don't really see the point in renaming from meta-fsl-ppc ->
>> meta-fsl-qoriq as well as meta-fsl-arm to meta-fsl-imx. But, I wonder
>> what others think about this. It seems like unneeded changes that will
>> just cause confusion. Why not just put vybird in meta-fsl-arm?
>
> I support this idea and it'd make users' life much easier.
>
>> 3) I think we should delay the creation of some of these layers until
>> we really have packages that are duplicated between two layers (e.g.
>> meta-layerscape can wait until we have a recipe that is needed for
>> both ARM and PPC and is not upstream in another layer)
>
> Personally I think it won't happen often as usually it'll not be a BSP
> package that will fit in this set so it'll end in meta-virtualization
> or meta-networking eventually.

I basically agree with this. Put this in the BSP layer so in this case
meta-fsl-networking.

>
>> 4) I think we need some more info about the "unifed" layer. I don't
>> think it needs to exist yet, but maybe others would like to see it.
>> Personally, I think it can be created automatically much like poky is
>> now.
>
> As I said, I fear it adding more confusing than solving. It might
> making users wonder which layer he/she will use and don't know exactly
> the difference between the merged layer and the individual ones.

I agree here too, unless someone comes up with a really good reason.

-M

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