[yocto] [poky] RaspberryPi Layer

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 21 May 2012 11:47:15 Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > On 19/05/12 22:51, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > > After an exchange of messages with Richard, Saul and John Willis (he
> > > already started a layer for oe and did a good job in it) i want to
> > > announce that i started start a fork from his layer and with Florin
> > > Sarbu will prepare a layer for RaspberryPi to work upon poky.
> > 
> > Why a fork? This is a bsp layer so it should be sufficiently generic to
> > work both with Poky and OE, it is really undesirable that there should
> > be more than one m-rpi layers in circulation.
> 
> There are issues that cannot be solved with just one layer. A distro is a
> workaround but still. More about this, rpi layer will be included in yocto
> project repos as  Richard plans so it makes sense to have a yocto specific
> layer. It could be a discussion here about using a core layer and above
> that some distro specific layers but in my opinion this would be a little
> too complicated for this. Right now i use a distro file which inherits poky
> distro in order to BBMASK some bbappends which we don't have in poky. Clear
> now?

Not really, no. I can't believe there is a good reason to have two layers for 
this. Can you please be more clear why we can't just have one?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre