[meta-freescale] The updated proposal of FSL Yocto layers reorg - 4-Mar

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Luo Zhenhua-B19537 <B19537 at freescale.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: otavio.salvador at gmail.com [mailto:otavio.salvador at gmail.com] On
>> Behalf Of Otavio Salvador
>>
>> >> >   Following SDK specific layers are maintained in
>> >> > git.am.freescale.net and git.freescale.com
>> >> >
>> >> >     meta-fsl-toolchain: layer for fsl toolchain recipes
>> >> >
>> >> >     meta-fsl-multimedia: layer for multimedia SDK
>> >> >
>> >> >     meta-fsl-networking: layer for networking SDK
>> >> >
>> >> >     meta-fsl-layerscape: layer for layerscape SDK
>> >>
>> >> I thought meta-fsl-layerscape would merge with meta-fsl-networking
>> >> and BSP part to be in meta-fsl-arm (as Vybrid).
>> > [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] multimedia, networking and layerscape are for
>> different SDKs specific bits. The common recipes will be put into meta-
>> fsl-ppc and meta-fsl-arm, including BSP part(e.g. machine conf, u-boot,
>> kernel, etc). Please elaborate if I don't fully follow your comments.
>>
>> I understand now but could you give an example of specific thing which
>> would go to layerscape layer?
> [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] what I can imagine is layerscape distro conf file, udev rules of ethernet port rename, demo rootfs image recipes, maybe more...

udev rules can be add to BSP depending on how they're used. However
all this seems more meta-fsl-networking thingy than a specific SDK.

>> >> > * Layer of getting layers specific to Freescale SDK
>> >> >
>> >> >   * Layer name: meta-freescale-sdk
>> >> >
>> >> >   * The function of this layer is similar as
>> >> > https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform and it is
>> >> > maintained in FSL internal/external git tree
>> >> >
>> >> >   * A branch is created for each FSL SDK release to include the
>> >> > scripts to fetch necessary layers of specified version
>> >>
>> >> It is still not clear to me what would be included here. Can you
>> >> please give a example directory structure for reference?
>> > [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] This layer is same as
>> https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform, a manifest and a
>> README are included.
>>
>> In this case the naming is bad. I'd call it fsl-sdk or fsl-bsp. The meta
>> prefix is used for layers and it is not going to be the case as it will
>> be a ready to use solution which groups a set of layers.
> [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] how about fsl-yocto-sdk to differentiate with other packaging tools, e.g. LTIB?

It works fine; my main concern is with the 'meta' prefix as it gives
the wrong message to user.

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