On Jul 24, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Chip Ueltschey <chipj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it would be good to find some way to organize this better.
> Currently the DuetPkg and Nt32Pkg are part of the UDK releases. I think it
> would be better to have a grouping of packages related to emulator support
> that included these as well as EmulatorPkg, UnixPkg and OvmfPkg, and then
> remove those packages from the set of UDK packages.
This sounds fine to me.
> The platform specific packages are at least not included in the UDK set, but
> I certainly agree that it would better to group them somehow.
> It seems odd to me that all this sort of packages are located in the
> edk2/trunk.
> I am very unfamiliar with how git reads into this (being a svn user today),
> but it seems like thinks would be better with a slightly less flat structure.
I agree 100%.
Thanks,
Andrew Fish
> -chip
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com> wrote:
> I've not seen any thoughts on this so here goes. Some one who understands
> source control better than me might have a better idea.
>
> I think something like this could work with git.
>
> Add a Platform directory to /trunk/edk2. Move EmulatorPkg, Nt32Pkg, OvmfPkg
> (we could make this a separate project too) and an other publicly available
> emulation environments into this directory. Remove hardware platforms.
>
> Then add N projects to support hardware platforms, maybe per company, or per
> project. A platform project looks like:
>
> git submodules of a specific version of the edk2 tree (fat driver, etc.). It
> could point to an svn branch that contains patches that are not yet merged
> into the mainline.
> Platfom/BeagleBoardPkg is then a git submodule
>
> So the N projects are hosted in a different svn/git than the ekd2, and then
> there is a git project that represents an edk2 version, plus a specific set
> of platform code. This means platform consumers can just pull a single item.
> The project git can be the working copy that users download, and the repo
> where platform code lives could be for TOT development.
>
> So again I'm no git expert but I've used a git project that has a submodule
> that is an svn remote. The strange thing is you end up doing git pull from .
> and Platfom/BeagleBoardPkg. Some one who knows git/svn better, may know a
> better way to do this, but at least something like this scales to a large
> number of platforms.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Fish
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Sivasakthivel Nainar <sivasakthiv...@ami.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > Is Tianocore.org supports platform specific contribution? I have seen
> > couple of Arm Platform sources in ArmPlatformPkg and Ti BeagleBoard
> > source. If so, Who is the contact point for creating such packages?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Siva
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