From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com (arroyo.ext.ti.com [192.94.94.40]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35A2E0027E for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:11:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dlelxv30.itg.ti.com ([172.17.2.17]) by arroyo.ext.ti.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id q9BGBZa0027264; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:11:35 -0500 Received: from DLEE74.ent.ti.com (dlee74.ent.ti.com [157.170.170.8]) by dlelxv30.itg.ti.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q9BGBZx6030616; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:11:35 -0500 Received: from dlelxv22.itg.ti.com (172.17.1.197) by DLEE74.ent.ti.com (157.170.170.8) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.323.3; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:11:34 -0500 Received: from localhost ([158.218.102.158]) by dlelxv22.itg.ti.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q9BGBYQm032735; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:11:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:11:34 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: Jason Kridner Message-ID: <20121011161134.GF17839@edge> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: meta-ti@yoctoproject.org, beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Introducing meta-beagleboard X-BeenThere: meta-ti@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-ti layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:11:38 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:46:36AM -0400, Jason Kridner wrote: > To help foster fast development, future releases of the Angstrom > Distribution that ships with BeagleBoard.org platforms (such as > BeagleBone and BeagleBoard-xM) will be built using meta-beagleboard, > rather than meta-ti. While this produces the seemingly undesirable > effect of providing yet-another-BSP for BeagleBoard.org platforms, > collaboration in the mainline kernel and bootloaders that are the key > elements for the BSPs has made this possible and multiple goals for > the various BSPs has made it desirable. Thank you, Jason! Before everyone freaks out - this is a good thing. This will enable meta-ti and meta-beagleboard to achieve their respective goals, as it relates to the common BeagleBone and BeagleBoard-xM platforms, w/o slowing or impeding each other. Thank you for your understanding. -- Denys > The objectives for meta-beagleboard are: > 1) Provide the best possible out-of-box-experience for BeagleBoard.org platforms > 2) Enable as much add-on hardware as possible > 3) Enable public contributions to extend the experience and hardware support > 4) Deliver information to the BeagleBoard.org community regarding the > development status > > The repository will be hosted at: > https://github.com/beagleboard/meta-beagleboard > > In addition to the many distributions of Linux picking up support for > the hardware from the mainline Linux kernel or collaboratively pulling > in-work patches from this repository (or the collaborative kernel > repository at http://github.com/beagleboard/kernel), there are various > OpenEmbedded BSP layers available for BeagleBoard.org platforms with > other objectives. These BSPs can be very useful to you depending on > your purpose and I've listed some here to position them relative to > meta-beagleboard. > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-ti/: > * Provide a basis for building TI SDKs > * Enable collaborative inputs from community developers seeking to > improve the BSPs used in TI SDKs > * Deliver BSPs that work with only oe-core required, compatible with > meta-yocto, meta-arago and other distro layers > * Provide a clear definition of what is supported by TI > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto/: > * Provide a reference for building Yocto BSPs > * Provide a reference for utilizing a common kernel across Yocto > reference platforms > > meta-beagleboard is seeking to participate in the Yocto Project and > provide reference for the other BSPs to utilize. However, its focused > objectives enable faster support for BeagleBoard.org platforms. Support > for the layer will come from Koen, Joel, myself and other CircuitCo or > TI employees supporting BeagleBoard.org---and of course any other > people who wish to contribute to the project. Where it is simple and > sane to do so, the components in meta-ti will simply be used. > > I hope you see clear value from the existence of this new layer and > how it helps accelerate development and foster both quality and > collaboration. Thanks for your kind support. > > Best regards, > Jason Kridner > TI and BeagleBoard.org > _______________________________________________ > meta-ti mailing list > meta-ti@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti