[meta-freescale] Freescale meta-freescale announcement of new layer

[Bob Cochran]

On 06/29/2015 02:38 PM, Lauren Post wrote:
> Freescale is pleased to announce the *meta-**freescale*layer which
> unifies i.MX andQorIQYoctoProject support  into a single
>
> YoctoProject layer supporting both i.MX ARM andQorIQARM and PowerPC
> architectures.  We lookforwardtohearingyour
>
> feedbackonhowtheconsolidationofi.MXandQorIQcanimprovetheYoctoProjectexperience.
> Ourgoalistohaveone
>
> buildenvironmentthatsupportsbothi.MXandQorIQmachines.


Thank you Lauren.  Will FSL SDK 1.8 be integrated into meta-fsl-ppc in 
the same way SDK 1.7 was, or will we only see it in the meta-freescale 
layer?


>
> Through 2015 until the end of the year, official releases will continue
> to be done on theYoctoProject layers for i.MX and
>
> QorIQused so far(meta-fsl-bsp-release, meta-fsl-arm, and meta-fsl-ppc).
> For the new meta-freescalelayer, releases will
>
> be performed on a monthly basis, addingbugfixesas well as updates from
> the meta-fsl-arm and meta-fsl-ppclayers.
>
> At the end of the year, when meta-freescaleis stable, meta-fsl-arm and
> meta-fsl-ppcwill be deprecated and only
>
> meta-freescalewill be used for Freescale releases.
>
> The first beta release of meta-freescale on the branch*transition_beta1*
> is available now on git.freescale.com [1]. This release gathers
>
> all of meta-fsl-arm andQorIQSDK 1.7 into one layer, including
> allgithistory, and includes the release branch *fido_freescale*
>
> based on the FSL Community BSP 1.8fidobranch [2]. Detailed information
> about each release is available in the README [3].
>
> The second beta release will be at the end of July and will add support
> for i.MX 7Dual, i.MX 6UltraLite and i.MX 6QuadPlus,
>
> as well asQorIQSDK 1.8.
>
> We look forward to feedback from the community to help build a
> betterYoctoProject environment.
>
> Instructions to download the manifest are in the README link below.
>
> $: repoinit-u git://git.freescale.com/yocto/fsl-yocto-repo.git -b
> transition_beta1
>
> [1]http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/yocto/
>
> [2]http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/1.8/
>
> [3]http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/yocto/fsl-yocto-repo.git/tree/README
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