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

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
> Le Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:52:02 +0000,
> McClintock Matthew-B29882 <B29882 at freescale.com> a écrit :
>> I think you misinterpreted the intent of my statement, the goal is to
>> provide the best support we can for the open source versions and get
>> feedback as well. However, specifically stating what will be done for
>> each release, branch, layer, etc is not something that is a
>> deliverable on the open source end and I don't see it happening soon.
>> That being said, there is no malicious intent and supporting upstream
>> and making it work as well as possible is the ultimate goal so our SDK
>> release requires less effort and work.
>>
> I may have misinterpreted your statement but it seems you make a
> difference between the open source version and the SDK release : isn't
> that roughly the same thing when we talk of meta-fsl-* where the SDK
> release can be seen as a snapshots of the opensource stable branch at
> the date of the release ? If not what are the differences ?

They *should* be the same. But for SDK releases sometimes we skip
entire Yocto releases (e.g. danny). SDK versions *may* contain
slightly different versions. This comes into play more with oe-core
where we don't have official control and we need to include a specific
fix for the SDK. Layers themselves tend to have less reason to deviate
from the upstream versions since we control both sides so they
*should* be the same.

> Also, do you plan to sync the public accessible git tree only when you
> do a release or will they get the patches in "realtime" ?

These should go in real time esp. if we are working on the current
release (e.g. master branch). Right now we are still using denzil
until the May release which will be based on what is now master.

-M