Having a repository-of-layers isn't something that is BSP-only, any layer can be setup in this way. Maybe this explanation should be cut from the BSP Guide and moved to a more general manual, say reference? Or maybe removed altogether? I'm not really sure what it adds; how repositories are stored and organized inside a revision system (or otherwise) is inconsequential, so long as bblayers.conf is setup correctly.
The only repository-of-layers of which I'm aware is meta-linaro (which, I don't think, is strictly a BSP layer). If I could go back in time, I'd nix the whole "let's prefix every layer name with 'meta-'". If every layer is 'meta-', the label itself becomes useless. It would have been much better if every layer were prefixed with something useful, such as its type (bsp-intel, distro-arago, sw-browser). That would be meaningful. Then we could reserve 'meta-' for the cases where we had repositories-of-layers ;-) -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
