[yocto] yocto beagleboard.conf -- should it not go away?

[Darren Hart]

On 09/05/2012 07:20 AM, William Mills wrote:
> On 09/04/2012 07:23 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/04/2012 01:25 PM, William Mills wrote:
>>
>>> Darren: Is it true you can't get @ the Intel BSP's w/o also getting the
>>> poky distro defs?  That does seem to mixing things a bit.  (I am not
>>> claiming meta-ti is clean yet but I want to understand the Intel examples.)
>>>
>>
>> It isn't something we test as part of the QA that we perform. I mostly
>> expect people building meta-intel to be building with meta-yocto
>> (although I wouldn't take a hard line on requiring it). That said, I
>> removed meta-yocto from a meta-intel/meta-fri2 build and removed
>> DISTRO=poky from my local.conf and successfully built and booted a
>> core-image-minimal build on an FRI2 this afternoon without any changes.
>>
> 
> Thanks!  My confidence is restored.
> 
> As long as including meta-yocto does not interfere with other BSPs or 
> distros etc then there should be no harm in your assumption.
> 
> I would be interested to know what Mentor Graphics and Wind River do on 
> their products.  Do they include meta-yocto? (YP is not all about 
> comercial OS support but I know these orginatations have done the due 
> diligence on layer compatibility for a non-poky distro.)

I haven't heard one way or the other, but perhaps Bruce, Sean, and
Matthew could comment on that.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel