From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C24BE01501 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:37:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r28Hb48P028670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:37:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.224.146.67] (128.224.146.67) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:37:03 -0800 Message-ID: <513A21B3.9060804@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:36:51 -0500 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Hart References: <513810E4.2040506@windriver.com> <51389E52.2000109@windriver.com> <513A19D3.8010508@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <513A19D3.8010508@linux.intel.com> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: A question on adding a new program to a new meta layer X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:37:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 13-03-08 12:03 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > > > On 03/07/2013 06:04 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: >> On 13-03-07 12:05 AM, Insop Song wrote: >>> Bruce, >>> >>> That's very good. I will bring linux-yocto-3.8 kernel to meta-dl. >>> (https://github.com/insop/meta-dl/tree/linux-yocto-3.8) >> >> I have another suggestion to offer here, one I've been wanting to >> do for a bit. >> >> I've added Darren Hart to the thread, since I'd like to hear from >> him on this as well. >> >> I have a use for the scheduling tools and benchmark cases for some >> virtualization usecases (meta-virtualization on git.yoctoproject.org). >> >> We already have "recipes-rt" in oe-core, and the preempt-rt kernel >> available from linux-yocto, and as we've been discussing I've added >> support for EDF/sched_dealine in linux-yocto-3.8. >> >> I'm not a fan of having to many layers, but rather than putting these >> efforts in github layers, hiding them in meta-virtualiation and they >> aren't yet "core" enough to go in oe-core .. I'd rather see them >> conslidated in a "meta-realtime" (or whatever name we decide on) >> layer on git.yoctoproject.org. > > > I'm fine with that. We should probably consider adding a realtime distro > definition as well at some point soon. Agreed. > > >> >> There are also ideas around interrupt management, AMP, and alternative >> system partitioning that I'd like to drive into such a layer. >> >> A quick scan of the layer index, doesn't show anything that matches >> this description. So I'm suggesting that we create a new layer >> to consolidate these approaches, and a layer that can be consumed by >> some of the other layers that are currently in progress. >> >> Comments ? In particular, point out a layer that already does this that >> I've missed. > > > No objection. Something outside of core would be better do to the > experimental nature of so much of this stuff. Also agreed. I'll move on getting some parts of this enabled on the yocto resources. Cheers, Bruce > >