[meta-freescale] Please review the proposal of FSL Yocto layers reorg - updated version on 28-Feb

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:17 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
> <B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Otavio Salvador
>> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Luo Zhenhua-B19537
>>> <B19537 at freescale.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for the comments.
>>>>
>>>> I did some update according to the feedback and removed some bits of internal activity. Please review and comment.
>>>
>>> From the update, I think it is much more inline with I believe it'd be
>>> the best way of doing it. Personally I found two things which could be
>>> further discussed:
>>>
>>> * meta-fsl-layerscale:
>>>
>>>   As Vybrid it could have the BSP part inside meta-fsl-arm and
>>> meta-fsl-ppc; I think the not BSP parts could go to
>>> meta-fsl-networking or similar and keep the BSP part unified. This
>>> would make easier for users and also make it easier for vendors to
>>> make customized BSPs using this as a common base.
>>
>> I think layerscape and vybrid recipes should go in their own
>> SDK/distro layers (what does not belong in meta-fsl-{ppc,arm})
>
> From my point of view, BSP could go to meta-fsl-{ppc,arm} and
> networking/multimedia go to the respective layers.

Right, board support should in in the meta-fsl-{ppc,arm} and extra
recipes/support in the networking/multimedia layers

>>> * meta-freescale-sdk:
>>>
>>>   It is not clear from the description what it would have inside. If
>>> it are going to have poky and all other layers the name is misleading.
>>> freescale-sdk or freescale-yocto-sdk would be better. Could you
>>> clarify it?
>>
>> I like the idea of meta-freescale-yocto-sdk since we are based on that.
>
> It all depends if it will provide poky or not. If it does, meta prefix
> ought to be dropped. meta prefix is used for layers and not complete
> SDKs so it will be confusing.

We have used poky in the past on the ppc side, what are you thoughts here?

-M