[meta-freescale] ANN: New layout for FSL Community BSP and BSP layers

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-10-25 16:52, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> In 2015 an effort to unify the i.MX and QorIQ BSP layers has been
> started and today we are finally moving the FSL Community BSP to use
> the result of this work.
>
> The development of this new layer has been possible due a
> collaborative work from O.S. Systems and NXP. It has been a long
> commitment from all the involved people as we tried hard to make the
> transition as seamless as possible.
>
> The new layer, called meta-freescale, has been available for quite
> some time at Github[1] but now it is also available under the Yocto
> Project Git[2] server.
>
> 1. https://github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale
> 2. http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-freescale/
>
> This layer supports Yocto Project 2.2 (morty) and upcoming releases
> (master). Users of older releases should keep using the meta-fsl-arm
> and meta-fsl-ppc layers.
>
> As a consequence of the new unified layer, the meta-fsl-arm-extra and
> meta-fsl-demos layers were also renamed so they use a more meaningful
> name. Basically:
>
> - meta-fsl-arm-extra has been renamed to meta-freescale-3rdparty. It
> makes clear that 3rdparty boards are supported on this layer and also
> removes the ARM from name as PowerPC and other NXP SoC’s based board
> are welcome to be included there as well.
>
> - meta-fsl-demos has been renamed to meta-freescale-distro. This
> communicates better the layer goal as it has been always a design
> decision to keep as isolated as possible the BSP and distribution
> bits.

>
> All previous releases are still working as Github provides a very nice
> rename handling so all users and forks are still valid.
>
> Please don’t think the work is complete as there are a number of
> recipes inside meta-freescale that need clean up or to be moved to
> other layers, however the base for the work is ready, and we need to
> look forward in order to develop the layer for the best of the
> community.

So, in practice, should we start using these new layers immediately?

Also, will new work/changes only be done in these new/renamed layers?

>
> We are now focusing in verifying as much the build results as possible
> from the new FSL Community BSP and to update the documentation to
> reflect those changes. All possible help is welcome.
>


-- 
Gary Thomas