[meta-intel] RFC to migrate meta-intel/meta-isg -> meta-intel-isg

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Thu Mar 10 09:48:35 PST 2016


Folks,

Currently the meta-intel repo contains a sub-layer called meta-isg
which holds a small number of older BSP and a set of Intel specific
software.

The BSPs, haswell, valleyisland, crystalforest and mohonpeak, are all
using the intel-core* BSPs as appropriate with kernel versions varying
from 3.14 -> 4.1. Any new BSPs should continue to use intel-core* BSPs
with the slight chance that additional kernel cmdline options might be
required.

The additional Intel specific software is DPDK, QAT, Zlib-QAT and
OpenSSL-QAT, these are specific to certain Intel hardware and not
general.

The ISG (IoTG) team maintaining the meta-isg layer would like to add
more current graphics than allowed by the Yocto Project's stable rules,
which states no updates in stable, unless needed for urgent CVE issues.

I would like to hear from the various users of meta-intel and meta-
intel/meta-isg about moving meta-isg into it's own repo that would be
named meta-intel-isg and meta-intel-isg-bsp to distinguish between the
sofware and the BSPs.  The hope is that most of the BSP configuration
will come from the meta-intel BSPs to reduce fragmentation. Only
special cases will land in the isg-bsp layer.  Most changes should come
in via linux-yocto kernel repo and via intel-core* BSPS.

Thoughts?

Thanks
   Sau!



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