On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Bob Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/27/2013 04:07 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Otavio Salvador >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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? >> >> >> Same using SDK kernel release, I don't think the kernel team will ever >> have everything upstreamed for an SDK release and supporting all >> feature and bug fixes. Besides we will pick a kernel and test and fix >> it so it will always fall out of sync. (e.g. latest kernel release - 1 >> release + fixes) >> >>> >>>>> **** 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. > > > > That's today. What about next week or next month? As Zhenhua develops the > revised Yocto layer strategy, I ask that he clarifies the policy on how the > same named tree on different servers will be maintained. > > > > > 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? > > > > Can we get a statement in the Yocto layers reorg doc on how each SDK branch > will be maintained between SDK releases? As a developer working to get > products out the door, will I view the patched SDK branch (between releases) > as a bug fixed SDK or as an experimental branch for the next SDK release?
I understand the sentiment but I don't think we can guarantee anything here. This is all done for free after all. I understand that's not a great answer but there are always limited resources spread around. Upstream / public branches will try to work with all Yocto releases, while SDK releases could contain a lot of hacks to more things working, or pre-release things out there door. -M _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
