[yocto] [poky] RaspberryPi Layer

[Andrei Gherzan]

On 05/21/2012 12:19 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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?
>
For example parsing libav and rpi-zram-service will fail. We don't have 
libav and we don't have systemd yet in poky.

@g


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