Hi Bob, Thanks a lot for your notes.
Please see my comments inline. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:meta-freescale- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Cochran > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 2:02 AM > > I offer the text below for inclusion in the Community documentation to > help QorIQ developers get started and clear up potential confusion > between the two FSL platforms (i.MX vs QorIQ) and also the community vs. > SDK issue. > > It would be nice to have a highlighted note on the community home page > stating that "QorIQ is now part of the FSL Community - read more here... > <link>. Of course, please add wherever you see fit and modify / add as > you like (I didn't include any marketing fluff). [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] We plan to add the QorIQ info in the community home page and related documents when the optimization of fsl-ppc layer is done and fsl-ppc layer is part of the manifest project, those patches are submitted and under review. http://patches.openembedded.org/project/meta-freescale/list/?submitter=11049 > I didn't want to duplicate what Zhenhua had already written, so I > reference his schedule instead. If the text below proves to be too > sparse, I'll be glad to add more. Also, I'll certainly be more than > willing to update the text over time as the support of QorIQ progresses > and some of my own confusion is resolved. > > > ********** doc starts here ********** > > As of July 2014, QorIQ devices are supported as part of the Freescale > Community BSP project. However, QorIQ developers should be aware that > the support process is in a transitory stage and various aspects of the > process will be coming online throughout the remainder of the year. > > The Yocto Project meta-freescale mailing list is very likely the most up > to date source of information regarding which aspects of the community > support process are in effect for QorIQ. A recent update to Freescale's > schedule for QorIQ community support can be read here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/meta- > [email protected]/msg09249.html > > Some of the most obvious immediate benefits of the inclusion of QorIQ in > the community project include the ability to discuss QorIQ issues with > other developers, build images for both i.MX and QorIQ using a common > build system & meta data, and be part of developing and improving the > code base for Freescale QorIQ processors built using the Yocto Project > Linux ecosystem. > > The community QorIQ software is in addition & complementary to the QorIQ > Linux SDK releases that are found on the Freescale web site. Currently, > the SDK release is more comprehensive and contains an additional layer > (meta-fsl-networking) with recipes that pull source provided exclusively > in the SDK ISO image. In other words, the SCM repositories for the > meta-fsl-networking recipes are not stored on a public site and are not > currently part of the Community project. For these recipes, the software > license is typically more restrictive per Freescale's terms. [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] The direction is to publish all packages in public git repository in future. > QorIQ developers should also be aware that each SDK release undergoes > testing by Freescale developers with each supported Freescale QorIQ > development platform (e.g., P1010RDB). However, the community BSP images > are not currently being tested extensively by Freescale. > Therefore, a QorIQ community developer may be the first one to test a > particular QorIQ development system with a community built image. > > Note that both the Yocto Project 1.7 release and Freescale SDK 1.7 > release are in development; the SDK release is planned to trail the Yocto > release, and a Community 1.7 release will trail the SDK 1.7 release (for > more details, see the aforementioned Freescale schedule). [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] According to the Yocto schedule(the end of Oct) and QorIQ SDK schedule(this Dec), the Community 1.7 may not contain the QorIQ SDK 1.7 content. > Historically, the QorIQ family has been based on Power Architecture > (powerpc), and the meta data for these Power-based SoCs can be found in > the community's meta-fsl-ppc layer. QorIQ Layerscape (LS) ARM support > will soon be added to the community's meta-fsl-arm layer, and files > specific to QorIQ ARM will be denoted with an "ls" prefix. > > Developers should also be aware that the QorIQ layer recipes pull source > from Freescale's Public GIT site: http://git.freescale.com. It is > anticipated that both a public mailing list and bug reporting system will > be introduced this year by Freescale to support the activity associated > with these repositories. [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] The FSL external source mirror is also in the plan. > All community image recipes, regardless of architecture, may make use of > the common base, poky, meta-fsl-demos, and meta-openembedded community > layers. Currently, the Freescale supplied demo image recipes targeting > QorIQ processors have a "-networking" suffix (e.g., fsl-image- > networking.bb). Best Regards, Zhenhua > > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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
