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

[Bob Cochran]

On 09/22/2014 08:51 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:20 AM, zhenhua.luo at freescale.com
> <mailto:zhenhua.luo at freescale.com> <zhenhua.luo at freescale.com
> <mailto:zhenhua.luo at freescale.com>> wrote:
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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



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>     Can you please review? Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
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> I think it is too soon to talk about any reorganization of the layers. I
> am still awaiting for the layers cleanup on the meta-fsl-ppc as several
> recipes there belong to other layers (meta-networking, meta-oe and so on).
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> We also don't have the list of common recipes, so at this moment this is
> still a guess about the common recipes.
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> LS1 is merged in fsl-arm so you can include it into FSL SDK in your git
> submodules/supergit/repo file.
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> I see no benefit merging it, just cons ...


The benefit I see is that it logically groups all QorIQ parts together, 
which I believe is important.

When Freescale needs to provide support for LS2A (next generation) DPAA, 
the current organization will become a mess.  A lot (if not most) of the 
QorIQ BSP layer is for DPAA / networking, and I don't think it will make 
sense to have these duplicated in both meta-fsl-ppc and meta-fsl-arm, or 
have DPAA code that will be built for the ARM in meta-fsl-ppc (or vice 
versa).

I would hope that having this code organized in logical layers under the 
scope of QorIQ would make it more manageable in migrating from something 
like a TXXX device to an LS2A device.

However, I certainly understand you not wanting to change everything 
before there is stability in what we currently have.

I'm building with meta-fsl-ppc on a daily basis, but I'm not using 
anything else in the community tree (e.g., demos, meta-fsl-arm, repo, 
etc.) because my perception is it isn't ready for me as a QorIQ developer.

Zhenhua, when are you looking to make these changes?  Will this be a 
master-next sort of thing after the end of the year, or do you want to 
do all this now?


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