[yocto] meta-sunxi maintained?

[Belisko Marek]

Hi Dimitris,

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:06 PM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Belisko,
>
> I was thinking about this also, too. The only reason is that in meta-sunxi they do a great job and they keep their layer clean, which is great I think. The other layers are just based on the armbian distro, which is a lot different, but for me it was much easier to integrate their patches, patching scripts and bootloader scripts to a Yocto layer. That way the only thing I do is that from time to time I just integrate their new patches and that's it. There's no development in the layer is just re-use of the armbian work and a wrapper around it. Therefore, it's hard, even no doable to put those different architectures together. But definitely that decision also bothered me a lot before I create the layer and I also don't like time to be spend on the same thing from different people. Nevertheless, from my point of view I couldn't find a way to put those things together. I've tried but I couldn't do it.
>
> Therefore, it was easier for me to do it the way I've done it. And after all, although it doesn't seem right, at the same time this is the beauty of the open source. I think the layers are just incompatible in the way that they are do things. Also it's not bad to have alternatives.
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> Sunxi is a great community and I believe many of the armbian patches are coming from there. Others not. Of course, having them all together would be nice. But I don't think that it's possible because of the different approach.
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> I hope this explains your question and even more that explains that was not a decision to divide things or create more hassle for the same chips.
Yes certainly. Thanks for great explanation and sorry if I wrote it in
not polite way I didn't mean to offence ;). Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Dimitris
>
> Belisko Marek <marek.belisko at gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 28. Mai 2019, 11:49:
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>> Hi Dimitris,
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:01 AM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Belisko,
>> >
>> > you can also have a look in to this layer: http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-allwinner-hx/
>> > It's for allwinner H2,H3 and H5 boards that already have support on Armbian.
>> > Pretty much is just a Yocto layer with all the patches and BSP support from Armbian.
>> > It supports 4.14 and 4.19 mainline kernels only and also the PREEMPT-RT patches.
>> > Warrior support was added recently, too.
>> OK thanks. I think I'll stick with meta-sunxi ;). What about join
>> forces and maintains one layer properly instead having it separated?
>> >
>> > A similar one is also this: http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-nanopi-neo4/
>> >
>> > Dimitris
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:33 PM Belisko Marek <marek.belisko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Enrico,
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:44 PM Enrico <ebutera at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > i try to keep it maintained, but now i just have a lime2 for testing
>> >> > on real hardware, and i don't have the resources to do test builds for
>> >> > all the supported boards.
>> >> > Your help would be welcome, i can't check right now if i have the
>> >> > rights to add you as co-maintainer, anyway i will add you.
>> >> Thanks I have few sunxi based boards so can do tests also on my setup.
>> >> Pls ping me when you will add me. Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for the help!
>> >> >
>> >> > Enrico
>> >>
>> >> Marek
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 4:50 PM Belisko Marek <marek.belisko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Hello,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I'm just curious if meta-sunxi is still maintained? I was contributed
>> >> > > to layer back while and when look now thud branch is un-compilable
>> >> > > (dri2proto not replaced) and warrior branch not created yet. There is
>> >> > > 14 issues + 6 pending pull requests. Added maintainers also in CC. I
>> >> > > think it would be good to have sunxi properly maintained as boards
>> >> > > with sunxi processors are popular. I can give a hand as co-maintainer
>> >> > > if necessary. Thanks a lot.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > BR,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > marek
>> >> > >
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>> marek

BR,

marek