On 14 September 2017 at 22:56, Nathan Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 September 2017 at 11:24, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Trevor Woerner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> On 10 September 2017 at 14:14, Nathan Rossi <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Please note whilst this series is sent for oe-core it may be better >>>>>> located in another layer? (e.g. meta-oe). However since the recipes and >>>>>> the tools they build are not specific to a single BSP it did not make >>>>>> sense to keep in a BSP specific layer. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sounds like a dedicated FPGA layer would be ideal. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think a layer for 2 recipes might be too much. Put it under >>>> recipes-devtools >>>> in meta-oe for now. >>> >>> 5? >>> >>> Am I reading this patch correctly? There are 5 recipes? >> >> 2 or 5 doesnt matter I just meant "too few to be a layer of its own" >> engineers minds :) > > That was my initial thoughts, and I was following your suggestion Khem :). > > Though it seems like now is probably a reasonable time as any to > create a layer to give a home for recipes in the HDL/FPGA space. After > all there are other projects that I would like to look at and probably > create recipes for in time, so what is now 5 recipes is likely to > increase. > > But I don't like the idea of a FPGA or vendor (e.g. lattice/etc) > specific layer since that makes it appear like a BSP layer, and there > is the problem of the tools 'conflicting' with proprietary tools those > vendors provide. I was thinking of following the approach of a > language-like layer similar to how meta-python/meta-rust/etc. are > setup, something like meta-hdl? Which would cover the recipes in the > language space (simulation/high-level hdl) as well as the recipes that > translate/compile HDLs for physical targets (FPGA, CPLD, etc).
For those interested, I have setup a meta-hdl layer and published it on github, it includes all the recipes from this patch series. https://github.com/nathanrossi/meta-hdl I've also submitted it to the layer index. Regards, Nathan -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
