Mike, It's a great idea to have another edk2-apps repo. I have a question not quite related to this new repo but related to edk2-platforms repo. There are many platforms in edk2 repo as well, like Ovmf, Emulator, Vlv2TbltDevicePkg. What's your opinion/plan about these platforms?
> -----Original Message----- > From: edk2-devel [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Kinney, Michael D > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 1:58 AM > To: [email protected]; Kinney, Michael D <[email protected]> > Subject: [edk2] [RFC] Proposal to add edk2-apps repository > > Hello, > > I would like to propose the creation of a new repository called edk2-apps. > This > repository would initially be used to host the following packages from the > edk2 > repository: > > * AppPkg > * StdLib > * StdLibPrivateInternalFiles > > These 3 packages provide support for the libc along with applications that > depend on libc. None of the other packages in the edk2 repository use these > packages, so these 3 package can be safely moved without any impacts to > platform firmware builds. > Build configurations that do use libc features can clone the edk2-apps > repository > and add it to PACKAGES_PATH. > > The history of these 3 packages would be preserved when importing the content > into edk2-apps. After The import is verified, these 3 packages would be > deleted > from the edk2 repository. > > This proposal helps reduce the size of the edk2 repository and focuses edk2 > repository on packages used to provide UEFI/PI conformant firmware. > > If there are no concerns with this proposal, I will enter a Tianocore BZs for > the > two steps. > > Best regards, > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > edk2-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
