From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72D1E01430 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 02:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 May 2012 02:19:41 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,352,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="142749903" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.175]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 May 2012 02:19:40 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Andrei Gherzan Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:19:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4278335.i6izktZTML@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.2 (Linux/3.2.0-24-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <4FB9F2FD.3060200@r-finger.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [poky] RaspberryPi Layer X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:19:43 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Monday 21 May 2012 11:47:15 Andrei Gherzan wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > > On 19/05/12 22:51, Andrei Gherzan wrote: > > > After an exchange of messages with Richard, Saul and John Willis (he > > > already started a layer for oe and did a good job in it) i want to > > > announce that i started start a fork from his layer and with Florin > > > Sarbu will prepare a layer for RaspberryPi to work upon poky. > > > > Why a fork? This is a bsp layer so it should be sufficiently generic to > > work both with Poky and OE, it is really undesirable that there should > > be more than one m-rpi layers in circulation. > > There are issues that cannot be solved with just one layer. A distro is a > workaround but still. More about this, rpi layer will be included in yocto > project repos as Richard plans so it makes sense to have a yocto specific > layer. It could be a discussion here about using a core layer and above > that some distro specific layers but in my opinion this would be a little > too complicated for this. Right now i use a distro file which inherits poky > distro in order to BBMASK some bbappends which we don't have in poky. Clear > now? Not really, no. I can't believe there is a good reason to have two layers for this. Can you please be more clear why we can't just have one? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre