[yocto] [PATCH 0/7] introduce rockchip offical linux support to meta-rockchip

[Trevor Woerner]

Hi Jacob,

Sorry for the delay, I hadn't noticed the patches initially because
the tag was missing, then I was busy with other things. I'm taking a
look at them now.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Leon Woestenberg <leon at sidebranch.com> wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Jacob Chen <jacob-chen at iotwrt.com> wrote:
>>
>> This series of patches add below features, will add more supports in the
>> future(medias, more chips).
>> 1
>> Rockchip 4.4 kernel is currently the latest version of the rockchip
>> offical kernel, will be an upstream tracking branch.
>> We regularly release the kernel through github. It support all rockchip
>> 64-bit chips and a few 32-bit chips.
>>
> The topic mentions "official kernel" and you mention "we".
>
> Does this mean this is a rock-chips driven effort?
>
> Good to see such (vendor) support, welcome aboard, but please understand the
> "layers" system of Yocto, like the others already pointed out in this email
> thread.
>
> - Basically you create a (BSP) layer, that sits on top of Yocto /
> OpenEmbedded core.
> - Also, it is good practice to also support the same GIT branch names for
> the different Yocto releases (such as krogoth, morty) such that users can
> easily match the correct branches so that everything just builds correctly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leon.
>
>
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