[meta-intel] meta-valleyisland BSP layer retirement communication

[Ng, Mei Yeen]

Hi Chris, Prasant,

Our official support for Valleyisland BSP is on the Jethro branch. 
Valleyisland is now supported at best effort maintenance mode for critical high-impact bug fixes. 
As of now, we do not have plans for releasing upgraded versions for this bsp. 

Also we are in progress of removing meta-isg in the future releases of meta-intel.
This is in favor of consolidating intel platforms to intel common machine. 

Thanks,
Mei Yeen
Intel Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Prasant J [mailto:pj0585 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 4:07 PM
To: Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com>
Cc: Ng, Mei Yeen <mei.yeen.ng at intel.com>; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [meta-intel] meta-valleyisland BSP layer retirement communication

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
>
> Dear mailing-list,
>
> We are planning to retire meta-valleyisland BSP layer from meta-intel 
> master branch and this change is targeted for the upcoming Yocto Project 2.2.
>
> This layer is retired in future YP releases because there are no 
> immediate requirements for support in newer LTSI kernel.
>
>
> Could you please explain what that means / why that is the case? There 
> are boards requiring this BSP that will be in production until after 
> 2020 (we use one) and it would be a pity not to be able to benefit 
> from the improvements that will be made in future versions of Yocto.
>
>  The meta-valleyisland BSP layer will continue to be maintained in 
> Yocto Project for:
> Yocto Project v2.0 (Jethro)
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/bsps/jethro20/valley-island
>
>
> Does that mean that there is no official support for ‘krogoth’, even 
> though meta-intel has meta-valleyisland in the ‘krogoth’ branch? I’m 
> currently updating our code to use this...
>
>  If you have a concern on this proposal, please let us know.
> If we do not hear any response from mailing-list, we will remove 
> meta-valleyisland BSP from meta-intel master branch start from 3rd 
> August 2016.
>
> Thank you.
> Ng Mei Yeen
> Intel Corporation
>
>


Hi,

We are using a third party board that uses Intel Atom E3845 processor.
We plan to use this processor for long time.

Till now we were relying on the meta-intel (specifically valleyisland). I do not understand what does this update mean? Will I not be able to get updates for my intel E3845?


Regards, Pj