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

[Max Krummenacher]

Hello Otavio

Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2016, 08:14 -0200 schrieb Otavio Salvador:
> 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.
> 
> One huge problem we have now is that the community release and the
> NXP
> release use different components for few core items (kernel,
> gstreamer
> plugin, u-boot) and we are cooking the different set of distros so
> users can easily reproduce the NXP release.
> 
Thanks for the explanation.

Max