Re: does a meta-intel (sub)layer require adding the meta-intel layer to bblayers.conf?

[Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>]

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
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