Re: Layer input

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 13-07-08 11:16 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2013 14:36:48 Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:22 AM, "Rifenbark, Scott M"
>> <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> wrote:
>>> I count eight meta-* layers in the YP repositories that don't exist in the
>>> OE area.  I understand what you are saying though and I can word it that
>>> way to dampen the existence of the "many" differences :)
>>
>> hmm may be they should be added to layer index. at least the ones which are
>> still maintained.
>
> This is down to me, I've been keeping the layer index up-to-date for the
> layers on yoctoproject.org. Listing the ones that aren't there, with comments
> as to why not:
>
> experimental/meta-darwin
>      - ancient, unmaintained, no conf/layer.conf
> experimental/meta-m2
>      - ancient, unmaintained
> experimental/meta-maemo
>      - ancient, unmaintained, no conf/layer.conf
> experimental/meta-trusted
>      - not actively maintained
> experimental/meta-x32
>      - ancient, we should probably just delete this
> meta-dlna
>      - replaced by collaboration with meta-guacamayo
> meta-extras
>      - not usable as a layer, most recipes unbuildable; I'm slowly whittling it
>        down as bits of it reappear in OE layers until one day hopefully it'll
>        become empty
> meta-intel-contrib
>      - contrib repo for meta-intel
> meta-jarvis
>      - joke layer
> meta-meson
>      - (probably could add)
> meta-meson-bsp
>      - (probably could add)
> meta-minnow
>      - (was waiting for hardware availability)
> meta-yocto-kernel-extras
>      - now submitted to the layer index
> meta-zynq
>      - status not entirely clear, but seems to have been superseded?

Superseded. The xilinx guys have linux-yocto support in hand in their
layers no, so we can mark this as dead.

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>