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

[Bob Cochran]

On 02/27/2013 04:07 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Same using SDK kernel release, I don't think the kernel team will ever
> have everything upstreamed for an SDK release and supporting all
> feature and bug fixes. Besides we will pick a kernel and test and fix
> it so it will always fall out of sync. (e.g. latest kernel release - 1
> release + fixes)
>
>>
>>>> **** 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.


That's today.  What about next week or next month?  As Zhenhua develops 
the revised Yocto layer strategy, I ask that he clarifies the policy on 
how the same named tree on different servers will be maintained.



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?


Can we get a statement in the Yocto layers reorg doc on how each SDK 
branch will be maintained between SDK releases?  As a developer working 
to get products out the door, will I view the patched SDK branch 
(between releases) as a bug fixed SDK or as an experimental branch for 
the next SDK release?


>
> These should be much closer to the same going forward (ideally
> anyways) if not identically esp. for the layers we control, however we
> can't always get all fixes in the oe-core/poky for an SDK release. But
> a lot of times we can get them into the branch for that release and
> eventually a point release.
>
> -M
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