[meta-intel] [PATCH 1/1 daisy/dizzy] meta-crystalforest: Initial Intel QAT recipe

[Darren Hart]

On 3/15/15, 8:04 AM, "Ong, Boon Leong" <boon.leong.ong at intel.com> wrote:

>>
>>Also, is there an effort underway to fix the QAT sources? All of this
>>looks very
>>fragile and I'm concerned about it's maintainability over time.
>>
>QAT technology is under-going refactoring whereby kernel driver going
>into Linux mainline.
>and user-space into 01.org. There is good traction happening there.
>
>As for now, all we have now is QAT source package that is using
>traditional tarball release with
>mux layer to switch between coleto-creek and cave-creek chipset variant.
>The recipe
>is not applicable to romley or mohonpeak platform. That is why we are
>targeting just
>meta-crystalforest layer which supports both variants.
>
>Ya, the recipe is long because this single tarball QAT Mux  contains two
>tarballs for the
>above variants. That is why we split into software packages according to
>platforms.
>
>It seems to me that maybe the recipe can be restructure into a single inc
>file and two bb files\
>for each of above variants?
>
>Is that reasonable ?


I think that would be a significant improvement.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center