[yocto] clarification about BSP layer names and bblayers.conf file?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Zanussi wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 08:37 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   second, the BBLAYERS example there seems overly complicated and
> > potentially confusing to beginners. the fact that meta-yocto is listed
> > as NON_REMOVABLE might make readers wonder how they're supposed to
> > know that. why not go with something a lot more people will see, like,
> > say:
> >
> >      BBLAYERS = ?" \                  <-- and that looks like a typo
> >        /usr/local/src/yocto/meta \
> >        /usr/local/src/yocto/meta-ti \
> >        "
> >
> >      BBLAYERS_NON_REMOVABLE ?= " \
> >        /usr/local/src/yocto/meta \
> >        "
> >
>
> I agree - the whole NON_REMOVABLE thing doesn't add anything and should
> be removed - the example is just trying to show how to add a BSP layer -
> the rest just adds potential confusion.  And, yeah, it's a typo..

  i'll let someone else decide what to do there.

> >   finally, the passing reference to layers that contain sub-BSP-layers
> > is good, but show an example, such as the fact that the meta-crownbay
> > layer.conf file has a dependency on meta-intel:
> >
> > ...
> > LAYERDEPENDS_crownbay = "intel"
> >
> >   never pass up the opportunity to reinforce an idea with a few lines
> > of actual code. :-)
> >
>
> Agreed, but on the other hand we don't really want to be too
> intel-specific (I know, we have crownbay everywhere else, but anyway..)

  i was just looking for an example of the kind of hierarchical layer
structure you find in meta-intel. is there another layer that has that
kind of structure?

rday

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