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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
<B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The FSL Yocto layers reorg proposal is attached, can you please take a
>>> look? Any comment and suggestion is welcome and appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Zhenhua.  I have a few questions and comments about your slides.
>>
>> *** Slide 2: "Move all FSL specific layers to totally open source, or as
>> much as possible"
>>
>> I'm all for this.  Will this include your PowerPC Linux Tree?  I didn't see
>> mention of this in your slides.  This can be found today on your public git,
>> but it hasn't been updated in months.
>>
>> I assume there's lots of kernel activity (as can be witnessed on the
>> linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org list), so I'm assuming an internal Linux tree
>> is being patched often.  It would be great to be able to see your Linux tree
>> patched as issues are being discussed & resolved on yocto & ozlabs mail
>> lists.
>
> We work on the upstream tree and also release an SDK kernel tree
> that's fully tested. The layers tend to use the latter since it
> supports all features. Nothing stopping users from adding a version
> using the upstream tree.

And from now on, what are the plans?

>> **** Slide 3: "FSL Layers maintained in git.am.freescale.net,
>> gitfrescale.com, and git.yoctoproject.org"
>>
>> Is your goal to have these layers in sync?  Today, I can find a meta-fsl-ppc
>> layer on yoctoproject and at git.freescale.com.  However, they are not in
>> sync, and I have no idea why one is patched and one isn't.
>
> They are somewhat in sync. The ones on git.freescale.com are still
> denzil based for the last SDK release. Ones on git.yoctoproject.org
> are newer and include danny and master branches as well.

And what are the plans regarding the SDK?

>> **** Slide 4: "Following layers will coexist:"
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean.  Do you mean that a layer (e.g., poky) will
>> exist separately on different servers?
>
> I think it just means all these layers will be present in this phase.
>
>>
>>
>> **** Slide 6: "A branch is created for each FSL SDK release to include the
>> scripts to fetch..."
>>
>> I'm all for this one. Obviously, an SDK release implies a certain level of
>> robustness.  I would like to see high quality, reviewed patches applied to
>> an SDK branch as necessary so well defined, robust incremental releases
>> could be generated between the ~6 month SDK release cycle.  The patches
>> would only be bug fixes and not new package or recipe versions.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
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