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

[Zhenhua Luo]

Bob, 

The fixes in meta-fsl-ppc will be ported to meta-freescale, 4 patches ported from meta-fsl-ppc were submitted for meta-freescale layer. 

http://patchwork.openembedded.org/project/meta-freescale/list/?submitter=1911


Best Regards,

Zhenhua 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert E. Cochran [mailto:yocto at mindchasers.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:58 AM
> To: Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>
> Cc: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo at nxp.com>; Lauren Post
> <Lauren.Post at freescale.com>; meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Freescale meta-freescale announcement of new
> layer
> 
> On 03/10/2016 11:27 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > Hello Robert,
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Robert E. Cochran
> > <yocto at mindchasers.com> wrote:
> > ...
> >> Thank you for the reply.   Where will the meta-freescale layer / repo be
> >> located?  I would like to see one created on yoctoproject.org with a master
> >> branch.   Currently the meta-freescale layer on freescale.com doesn't have
> a
> >> master branch.
> >>
> >> I ask that either you or someone else inside NXP sends out an
> >> announcement when this switch officially takes place.
> > For now, it is available on Github with a master branch. Patches for
> > it are handled using meta-freescale as usual.
> 
> Thank you for the reply Otavio.  I had been using the GitHub meta-freescale,
> but I think it has fallen behind.
> 
> As an example, meta-fsl-ppc has commit 2e9b383ccaf4 that patches
> qoriq_build_64bit_kernel.bbclass and u-boot-qoriq_2015.01.bb. However,
> neither this commit nor the patched-up files can be found in Github's
> meta-freescale.   Therefore, I went back to using meta-fsl-ppc for
> building Power QorIQ images.
> 
> Please let me know if you'll be updating meta-freescale to bring it up to date
> for ppc QorIQ, or let me know if I'm mistaken about this.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Bob
> 
> >
> > In not so distant future we intend to move include the repository on
> > Yocto Project git server however it is not yet ready for it.
> >