[yocto] meta-sunxi maintained?

[Belisko Marek]

Hi Dimitris,

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:07 PM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Enrico,
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> I'm totally positive to any possibility for such integration. Personally, that was the first thing I've tried to do before I start this layer, but I've failed as it got really complex and the overhead was too much after some point (at least for me). If you have look it's actually a mix of meta-sunxi and armbian, but I had to remove or change many stuff to fit the armbian in the layer.
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> If you have time to have a look to my layer and you think that such kind of integration is possible and can be done in a more easy way, then from my side I'm all in.
> I believe that re-using the armbian patches is easier as it makes maintenance much easier, there are more supported SBCs and also there is much more testing involved in armbian and frequent updates fix those bugs.
I did check your layer and it seems that you're not using sunxi-mali
for opengl HW acceleration only mesa so SW rendering? Thanks.
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> Please consider it and I can help as much as I can and my time allows for that integration.
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> Regards,
> Dimitris
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>
Marek
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> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:56 PM Enrico <ebutera at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:06 PM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > >
>> > > 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.
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>> > > 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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>> It would be great to integrate all those different layers in
>> meta-sunxi,the main problem is that usually they come with their own
>> bootloader/kernel/etc.... so you have to *maintain* all these
>> different configurations.
>> Infact in the past i refused to do such things because i didn't have
>> the time to maintain all those different versions, it was just easier
>> to support what was already in mainline uboot/kernel.
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>> But of course if someone wants to do it then it's welcome, the worst
>> thing that can happen is that once an arch gets unmaintained it will
>> be removed.
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>> One thing that can be done anyway is to have those external layers
>> linked in the readme, so at least people will know they exist.
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>> Enrico