On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 16:05 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 13:23 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > again, a discrepancy between the docs and the source files. i > > > checked out the entire meta-intel layer, and below that the file > > > meta-crownbay/README clearly states: > > > > > > "Having done that, and assuming you extracted the BSP tarball contents > > > at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can build a crownbay > > > image by adding the location of the meta-crownbay layer to > > > bblayers.conf, along with the meta-intel layer itself (to access > > > common metadata shared between BSPs) e.g.: > > > > > > yocto/meta-intel \ > > > yocto/meta-intel/meta-crownbay \" > > > > > > however, the ref manual, Section 4.1, "BSP Layers", suggests only: > > > > > > BBLAYERS = " \ > > > /usr/local/src/yocto/meta \ > > > /usr/local/src/yocto/meta-yocto \ > > > /usr/local/src/yocto/meta-<bsp_name> \ > > > " > > > > > > note no mention of including "meta-intel" layer. clarification? > > > > > > > Yes, I think that's as it should be - the general-purpose documentation > > shouldn't mention specific layers. meta-intel has its own layering > > requirements as mentioned in the READMEs for those BSPs. Also I think > > the text mentions it's an example, but I guess I'm a bit confused since > > I'm finding that in section 5.1. Example Filesystem Layout here: > > > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html > > > > Am I looking at the wrong thing? > > ah, yes, i'm looking at the *newer* version of that doc as cloned > from yocto-docs where Section 4.1 of that manual is called "BSP > Layers" and really emphasizes meta-intel and related layers and, > because of that, has some awkward wording that might mislead the > reader. if you want to check the yocto-docs version of the same > manual, you might see what i'm talking about. >
Yeah, I do see... I think all the examples in that section should be removed - some of them aren't even BSP layers, and at any rate we really don't need specific examples in a generic section like that. Posting an update to that section now... Tom > rday > _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
