[meta-freescale] The Yocto layer re-architect for FSL QorIQ SDK

[Daiane Angolini]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:20 AM, zhenhua.luo at freescale.com
<zhenhua.luo at freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Along with the Layerscape ARM platforms support in QorIQ SDK, there are more
> and more common recipes for QorIQ PPC targets and QorIQ Layerscape ARM
> targets, to avoid the duplicated recipes which are maintained in fsl-arm and
> fsl-ppc layer separately, and make the layers hierarchical for FSL QorIQ
> SDK, the unified top layer(meta-fsl-qoriq) and corresponding
> sub-layers(meta-arm and meta-ppc) mechanism is proposed.

When you say "sub-layers" do you mean you are going to have one layer
*inside* another?

Why do you think it´s a good idea? Why not having the sub-layer separated?

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> Following is the structure of the meta-fsl-qoriq layer.
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> meta-fsl-qoriq
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> |--- common                   # the common recipes for QorIQ ARM and PPC
> targets

What is common? Can you provide an example?

Daiane
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> |--- conf
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> |    |--- layar.conf          # the layer conf file of top layer
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> |--- COPYING                  # the license file of FSL QorIQ layer
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> |--- meta-arm                 # the sub-layer for recipes specific to QorIQ
> ARM targets
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> |    |--- conf
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> |    |    |--- layer.conf     # the layer conf file of QorIQ ARM sub-layer
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> |    |    |--- machine        # the machine conf files of QorIQ ARM
> platforms
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> |    |--- README              # README of QorIQ ARM sub-layer
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> |    |--- recipes-…           # the recipes of QorIQ ARM targets
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> |--- meta-ppc                 # the sub-layer for recipes specific to QorIQ
> PPC targets
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> |    |--- conf
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> |    |    |--- layer.conf     # the layer conf file of QorIQ PPC sub-layer
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> |    |    |--- machine        # the machine conf files of QorIQ PPC
> platforms
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> |    |--- README              # README of QorIQ PPC sub-layer
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> |    |--- recipes-…           # the recipes of QorIQ PPC targets
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> |--- meta-…                   # other layers for QorIQ SDK support, e.g.
> meta-toolchain
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> |--- README                   # README of top layer
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> The meta-fsl-ppc layer will be retired and replaced by the new
> meta-fsl-qoriq layer.
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> Can you please review? Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
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> Best Regards,
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> Zhenhua
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