Hi,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Nicu Pavel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's the proper way of adding a new board support layer ? Should I
>> just add a meta-picosam9 with our kernel recipes and board
>> configuration and submit a patch ?
>
> It seems you are interested in layered model which means you will
> base your work on oe-core and other layers. Yes writing your own
> machine layer is a preferred approach. However you need to host
> and maintain the layer. For hosting gihub bitbucket gitorious etc
> work good. If you maintain the layer in pretty good shape many
> distro's like angstrom might include your machine layer in the
> default build
>
> There are some machine layers mentioned here
>
>  http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/LayerIndex
>
> You can use one of those for reference and modelling its upto you

Thanks for the info, I added a layer for our board here:

git://gitorious.org/picopc-tools/meta-picosam9.git

I successfully build kernel and console-image from meta-angstrom layer with it.

Thanks,
Nicu Pavel

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