Re: Building a core-image-base

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:56:24PM +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 30/08/12 21:08, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > For our TI SDK products and the new Arago "distribution", we are using said 
> > "denzil" branch of meta-ti. 
> 
> Having a branch is great, but 'branch' and 'release' are very different
> things; branch is a moving target, a release is a fixed point in time
> that was tested and approved, and consequently one can have a reasonable
> expectation (dare I say, a guarantee?), that it works. The current
> denzil release is 7.0.1; there isn't a meta-ti commit that works with
> this without jumping through hoops, is there? I think a BSP layer really
> needs to have formal releases.

There was a tag applied at the time of the Yocto Project release:

v2012.05-yocto1.2

[BTW, I'm not sure what 7.0.1 is - is it Poky versioning?]

That said, meta-ti was not ready to have a formal release at the time. 
Moreover, testing with Yocto/Poky release was not done - it was meant to be 
used with oe-core and possibly meta-oe and be Yocto-compatible. This may sound 
confusing, but since there's no better terminology available, that would do. 

Hopefully, by the next Yocto Project 1.3 release, we'll do better testing with 
just Yocto/Poky, but right now my focus is on bringing up the new Arago 
distro for our SDKs, while Koen is mostly interested in Angstrom. I do 
understand that we are getting more and more newcomers from a pure Yocto/Poky 
environment and making sure we have a smooth experience for them with meta-ti 
is important, but it will take some time...

-- 
Denys