On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Bob Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> The FSL Yocto layers reorg proposal is attached, can you please take a >>> look? Any comment and suggestion is welcome and appreciated. >>> >> >> Thanks Zhenhua. I have a few questions and comments about your slides. >> >> *** Slide 2: "Move all FSL specific layers to totally open source, or as >> much as possible" >> >> I'm all for this. Will this include your PowerPC Linux Tree? I didn't see >> mention of this in your slides. This can be found today on your public git, >> but it hasn't been updated in months. >> >> I assume there's lots of kernel activity (as can be witnessed on the >> [email protected] list), so I'm assuming an internal Linux tree >> is being patched often. It would be great to be able to see your Linux tree >> patched as issues are being discussed & resolved on yocto & ozlabs mail >> lists. > > We work on the upstream tree and also release an SDK kernel tree > that's fully tested. The layers tend to use the latter since it > supports all features. Nothing stopping users from adding a version > using the upstream tree.
And from now on, what are the plans? >> **** Slide 3: "FSL Layers maintained in git.am.freescale.net, >> gitfrescale.com, and git.yoctoproject.org" >> >> Is your goal to have these layers in sync? Today, I can find a meta-fsl-ppc >> layer on yoctoproject and at git.freescale.com. However, they are not in >> sync, and I have no idea why one is patched and one isn't. > > They are somewhat in sync. The ones on git.freescale.com are still > denzil based for the last SDK release. Ones on git.yoctoproject.org > are newer and include danny and master branches as well. And what are the plans regarding the SDK? >> **** Slide 4: "Following layers will coexist:" >> >> I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that a layer (e.g., poky) will >> exist separately on different servers? > > I think it just means all these layers will be present in this phase. > >> >> >> **** Slide 6: "A branch is created for each FSL SDK release to include the >> scripts to fetch..." >> >> I'm all for this one. Obviously, an SDK release implies a certain level of >> robustness. I would like to see high quality, reviewed patches applied to >> an SDK branch as necessary so well defined, robust incremental releases >> could be generated between the ~6 month SDK release cycle. The patches >> would only be bug fixes and not new package or recipe versions. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> meta-freescale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale > _______________________________________________ > meta-freescale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
