Re: Additional / new BSP collection?

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:30 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> As you know, I've been working on several kernel efforts
> around the FSL parts as well (in particular the ones that
> have enough pieces upstream to work out of the box).  I
> definitely don't want to overlap in a way that doesn't
> create complimentary efforts.
> 
> What are your current thoughts around kernels and the
> (nearly religious) kernel version question ? It would be
> great to get some alignment on features (-rt, tracing,
> boot, footprint reduction, etc, etc) and save some effort
> on maintenance and validation. Also if we want to create
> some yocto reference BSPs, having a kernel version and feature
> set match is important as well (i.e. what we've done for
> the intel ones).
> 
> To that end, do you have an thoughts about using linux-yocto
> as a base to any BSP work ? That statement doesn't do it
> justice though, since when I say 'use linux-yocto as a base',
> it really means that linux-yocto uses your BSPs as an
> upstream/official reference and can pull support for them
> into branches, and have the configuration and other tooling
> get them any functionality that is being developed.
> 
> No control over BSP content, or anything like this, is being
> suggested or asserted here. Just looking to all push in the
> same direction (embedded features and BSPs to upstream) and
> re-use the work of BSPs available in the community. If the
> base is the same (and hence kernel version), then this relationship
> and workflow is very simple.
> 
> ... and as a bonus, if the workflow doesn't work easily, then
> there's a problem with it and we can work on something that
> is suitable (change tools, etc).

So just to put what Bruce says into other words, there isn't any hard
requirement to use linux-yocto but we are asking people to try it and if
it doesn't work, at least tell us why.

I understand transitions and new ways of working take time and that
meta-fsl-ppc might be enough of a step at first without the linux-yocto
complications. That is fine but please do keep it in mind.

Cheers,

Richard