[meta-freescale] FSL Community BSP Meeting - 09/08/2014 - 13:00 UTC

[Bob Cochran]

On 08/30/2014 09:44 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> We ended not doing the meeting last month; it is important we don't
> lose the pace and I'd like to propose we do this one in:
>
>    Date: September 8th
>    Time: 13:00 UTC
>
> The proposed FSL Community BSP Meeting Agenda is:
>
> Status
> * Short testing status from maintainers/testers
> * Upcoming board
> * Upstream
>
> Status of actions of last meeting
> * Mario is going to review the user guide and FAQ to help checking
> spelling and more
> * Otavio, Daiane and Eric are going to help with Bugzilla entries
> * Eric, are going to draft of a "Statement of Purpose"
> * Documentation
>     * What is FSL Community BSP
>        * Motivation
>        * What the FSL Community BSP is not
>        * What to expect (production X basic feature)
>
> meta-fsl-ppc
> * Release Notes
> * Technical implications
>
> Document
> * Release Notes: Use cases (what is missing?)
> * User guide: help
>     * How to use/why DirectFB/Wayland/FB/X11 on i.MX6?
> * Documentation


Thanks Otavio.  I'll attend.

I sent out some draft notes on 7/24 about the inclusion of QorIQ within 
the community project.  Obviously, most of the community is currently 
focused on i.MX, but I believe some (tracking) notes on the Commmunity 
site about how OorIQ is different & behind the curve is important.

I'm fully on board with helping the community integrate QorIQ.

For convenience, I have pasted the 7/24 draft below.


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As of July 2014, QorIQ devices are supported as part of the Freescale 
Community BSP project.  However, QorIQ developers should be aware that 
the support process is in a transitory stage and various aspects of the 
process will be coming online throughout the remainder of the year.

The Yocto Project meta-freescale mailing list is very likely the most up 
to date source of information regarding which aspects of the community 
support process are in effect for QorIQ.  A recent update to Freescale's 
schedule for QorIQ community support can be read here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org/msg09249.html

Some of the most obvious immediate benefits of the inclusion of QorIQ in 
the community project include the ability to discuss QorIQ issues with 
other developers, build images for both i.MX and QorIQ using a common 
build system & meta data, and be part of developing and improving the 
code base for Freescale QorIQ processors built using the Yocto Project 
Linux ecosystem.

The community QorIQ software is in addition & complementary to the QorIQ 
Linux SDK releases that are found on the Freescale web site.  Currently, 
the SDK release is more comprehensive and contains an additional layer 
(meta-fsl-networking) with recipes that pull source provided exclusively 
in the SDK ISO image.  In other words, the  SCM repositories for the 
meta-fsl-networking recipes are not stored on a public site and are not 
currently part of the Community project.  For these recipes, the 
software license is typically more restrictive per Freescale's terms.

QorIQ developers should also be aware that each SDK release undergoes 
testing by Freescale developers with each supported Freescale QorIQ 
development platform (e.g., P1010RDB).  However, the community BSP 
images are not currently being tested extensively by Freescale. 
Therefore, a QorIQ community developer may be the first one to test a 
particular QorIQ development system with a community built image.

Note that both the Yocto Project 1.7 release and Freescale SDK 1.7 
release are in development; the SDK release is planned to trail the 
Yocto release, and a Community 1.7 release will trail the SDK 1.7 
release (for more details, see the aforementioned Freescale schedule).

Historically, the QorIQ family has been based on Power Architecture 
(powerpc), and the meta data for these Power-based SoCs can be found in 
the community's meta-fsl-ppc layer.  QorIQ Layerscape (LS) ARM support 
will soon be added to the community's meta-fsl-arm layer, and files 
specific to QorIQ ARM will be denoted with an "ls" prefix.

Developers should also be aware that the QorIQ layer recipes pull source 
from Freescale's Public GIT site: http://git.freescale.com. It is 
anticipated that both a public mailing list and bug reporting system 
will be introduced this year by Freescale to support the activity 
associated with these repositories.

All community image recipes, regardless of architecture, may make use of 
the common base, poky, meta-fsl-demos, and meta-openembedded community 
layers.  Currently, the Freescale supplied demo image recipes targeting 
QorIQ processors have a "-networking" suffix (e.g., 
fsl-image-networking.bb).


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>     * (1.7) License = CC - share-alike, attribution
>     * What is FSL Community BSP
>        * Motivation
>        * What the FSL Community BSP is not
>        * What to expect (production X basic feature)
>     * (1.7) UG
>        * Sanity Test (double check step-by-step)
>        * Start automatization
>        * Include “Yocto Training Tasks”
>        * Document PACKAGEGROUP and IMAGES
>        * Document BSP variables
>     * RN
>        * Update versions (1.6 and 1.7)
> * (1.8) FAQ: pending issues to make it public
> * (1.8) FAQ: process of adding new question
>
> Topics raised in last meeting
> * How to get more people involved in future
> * Get sub-maintainers for specific areas
>     * Define the sub areas
>     * How to get it promoted
>
> I have sent the invite to the people who has participate in the previous[1].
>
> 1. https://plus.google.com/events/c8lu6lls7jq06npl6gbifmlagi4
>
> In case you didn't receive the invite send me your e-mail address so I
> include it.
>
> Best Regards,
>