[meta-freescale] [RFC] The proposal of FSL QorIQ SDK upstream

[Bob Cochran]

On 07/23/2014 03:16 AM, zhenhua.luo at freescale.com wrote:
> Hi Daiane,
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> The details on how/what-to-do needs more discussion, especially for documentation update, arm and ppc layer collaborate, testing, etc. Some works in the item lists have been done, some works are being done, some works are to be done.
>
> Regarding the name, I don't know what name is good, maybe FSL Community Yocto Embedded Linux, any better idea?


How will QorIQ ARM specific (meta) data be organized / labeled?  Is it 
going in meta-fsl-arm?

Aren't there 3 different sets of data: fsl-imx-arm, fsl-qoriq-arm, and 
fsl-qori-ppc?

Sorry if this has already been resolved, and I just didn't catch it.


>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Zhenhua
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Angolini Daiane-B19406
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:20 PM
>> To: Luo Zhenhua-B19537; meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: RE: [meta-freescale] [RFC] The proposal of FSL QorIQ SDK
>> upstream
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: meta-freescale-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-freescale-
>>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of zhenhua.luo at freescale.com
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 3:01 AM
>>> To: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
>>> Subject: [meta-freescale] [RFC] The proposal of FSL QorIQ SDK upstream
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Following is the proposal for FSL QorIQ SDK upstream, comment is
>> welcome.
>>>
>>> Upstream Plan
>>> • SDK 1.6 recipe upstream (Done)
>>>    − http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-ppc/
>>> • Optimize the recipes in meta-fsl-ppc (Done) • Resolve the PPC and
>>> ARM layer compatibility issue (31-Jul)
>>>    − Replace fslmachine with qoriq for override implementation
>>>    − Compatibility issue in bbappends
>>> • LS1 Alpha release upstream (15-Aug)
>>>    − http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-arm/
>>> • Update and debug the initial script to support QorIQ targets (29-Aug)
>>>    − https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-base
>>> • Update repo config to facilitate the SDK fetch (29-Aug)
>>>    − https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform
>>> • Add demo image in meta-fsl-demo (29-Aug)
>>>    − https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-demos
>>> • Update the documentation (10-Sep)
>>>    − https://github.com/Freescale/Freescale.github.io
>>>    − https://github.com/Freescale/Documentation
>>> • Regression test for FSL community BSP periodically (19-Sep)
>>>    NOTE: the time and interval depends on the logistics readiness • Set
>>> up a public image mirror for community users' testing • LS1 August
>>> release
>>> upstream(30-Sep) • SDK 1.7 upstream (Jan-2015) • LS2 upstream (TBD)
>>>
>>> Regression Testing
>>> • Leverage repo(manifest project) to fetch code.
>>> • Weekly build for QorIQ PPC and LS ARM targets, the build is based on
>>> community layers,
>>>    the issues of Yocto Community BSP and FSL SDK should be separated
>>> due to differentiation.
>>> • Periodically sanity test for typical boards that are randomly
>>> selected according to board resource availability.
>>>
>>> Infrastructure
>>> • Bug management for community SDK
>>>    https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/
>>> • Mailing list
>>>    meta-freescale at freescale.com
>>>    FSL community SDK discussion, patch submit and review
>>>
>>> More to do
>>> • Setup public bug management system for FSL SDKs.
>>> • Push all modules to public git repository to ensure FSL community
>>> BSP sync with FSL released SDK.
>>> • Setup an external mailing list for external git repository for FSL
>>> SDK discussion, patch submission, patch review.
>>> • Setup an patch management tool(patchwork or gerrit) to manage
>>> patches from community.
>>> • Enhance the commit message in patch to facilitate the patch search
>>> for specific issue.
>>>
>>
>> I like your list, and I don´t remember (now) anything else to add.
>> I assume it´s a high level list, and details on how-to and what-to do is
>> for future discussion.
>>
>> However, your email highlighted a critical issue we (ARM+PPC) have. You
>> used 4 different names to call "the community source code".
>>
>> BSP - board support package [1]
>> " is a collection of information that defines how to support a particular
>> hardware device, set of devices, or hardware platform."
>>
>> It means that the current "FSL Community BSP" name is wrong. The
>> resultant code provides more that "info to define how to support HW". To
>> be very simplistic, in a BSP there is no image recipe.
>>
>> SDK - Software Development Kit [2]
>>
>> Being defined (in YP) as toolchain+sysroot+setup-env script.
>>
>> I assume meta-fsl-ppc does not provide *only* SDK. I assume it provides
>> both BSP and the tools to allow user to create the SDK.
>>
>> So, call meta-fsl-arm/extra+meta-fsl-pcc+meta-fsl-
>> demos+Documentation+fsl-community-bsp-base+fsl-community-bsp-platform
>> only as "FSL Community BSP" is not complete/right/cool.
>>
>>
>> Historically, we started to build the "FSL Community BSP" identity in
>> past one year. At first, I used to thought about it as "meta-fsl-arm"
>> (once upon a time, we cloned one by one the needed repos). Then "meta-
>> fsl-arm" became incomplete, and we created the super-set of projects that,
>> together, would form a bigger and stronger project, and we decided to
>> call it "FSL Community BSP"
>>
>> I think we can use the ARM+PCC technical union effort to start building
>> our identity as community.
>>
>> [1] http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/bsp-guide/bsp-guide.html#bsp
>> [2] http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-
>> manual.html#sdk-generation-dev-environment
>>
>>
>> Daiane