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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> Hello Max,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-10-26 14:15 GMT+02:00 Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>:
>>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Otavio Salvador
>>>>>> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think this is a good opportunity to rename the project as well.
>>>>>> Instead of using FSL Community BSP we could use FSL Community PDK.
>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking in renaming: why don't we use NXP instead of FSL?
>>>
>>> In OE/Yocto a distro layer is some thing special. So using distro in a
>>> layer name which is not a distro layer is sort of confusing.
>>>
>>> If there is another rename ahead, I would propose to also consider to
>>> not use '-distro' in meta-freescale-distro. I don't know what was the
>>> rationale to no longer user the '-demo', if one does not want to use
>>> demo one could use e.g.
>>> ...-sw or ...-user.
>>
>> Because the layer is going to include the distros.
>
> Otavio, it makes me think we need to also work on the Documentation to
> accommodate all the changes. It's going to be a huge change.
>
> I'm really busy working for the FTF Connect Brazil, so I can only
> start working on this task after November 8th.

Yes; the documentation does need to change to accommodate to the new layout.

The biggest problem of this date is the delay in releasing the FSL
Community BSP. Maybe someone could help to try to reduce the time?

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