From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 3BB21E00736; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:01:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from smtp.webfaction.com (mail6.webfaction.com [74.55.86.74]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DB8E006C4 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (c-68-38-40-177.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [68.38.40.177]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2365420BE757 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53D14A10.7070707@mindchasers.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:01:52 -0400 From: Bob Cochran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Draft of FSL Community notes to help QorIQ developers... X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:01:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello FSL Community, I offer the text below for inclusion in the Community documentation to help QorIQ developers get started and clear up potential confusion between the two FSL platforms (i.MX vs QorIQ) and also the community vs. SDK issue. It would be nice to have a highlighted note on the community home page stating that "QorIQ is now part of the FSL Community - read more here... . Of course, please add wherever you see fit and modify / add as you like (I didn't include any marketing fluff). I didn't want to duplicate what Zhenhua had already written, so I reference his schedule instead. If the text below proves to be too sparse, I'll be glad to add more. Also, I'll certainly be more than willing to update the text over time as the support of QorIQ progresses and some of my own confusion is resolved. ********** doc starts here ********** As of July 2014, QorIQ devices are supported as part of the Freescale Community BSP project. However, QorIQ developers should be aware that the support process is in a transitory stage and various aspects of the process will be coming online throughout the remainder of the year. The Yocto Project meta-freescale mailing list is very likely the most up to date source of information regarding which aspects of the community support process are in effect for QorIQ. A recent update to Freescale's schedule for QorIQ community support can be read here: https://www.mail-archive.com/meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org/msg09249.html Some of the most obvious immediate benefits of the inclusion of QorIQ in the community project include the ability to discuss QorIQ issues with other developers, build images for both i.MX and QorIQ using a common build system & meta data, and be part of developing and improving the code base for Freescale QorIQ processors built using the Yocto Project Linux ecosystem. The community QorIQ software is in addition & complementary to the QorIQ Linux SDK releases that are found on the Freescale web site. Currently, the SDK release is more comprehensive and contains an additional layer (meta-fsl-networking) with recipes that pull source provided exclusively in the SDK ISO image. In other words, the SCM repositories for the meta-fsl-networking recipes are not stored on a public site and are not currently part of the Community project. For these recipes, the software license is typically more restrictive per Freescale's terms. QorIQ developers should also be aware that each SDK release undergoes testing by Freescale developers with each supported Freescale QorIQ development platform (e.g., P1010RDB). However, the community BSP images are not currently being tested extensively by Freescale. Therefore, a QorIQ community developer may be the first one to test a particular QorIQ development system with a community built image. Note that both the Yocto Project 1.7 release and Freescale SDK 1.7 release are in development; the SDK release is planned to trail the Yocto release, and a Community 1.7 release will trail the SDK 1.7 release (for more details, see the aforementioned Freescale schedule). Historically, the QorIQ family has been based on Power Architecture (powerpc), and the meta data for these Power-based SoCs can be found in the community's meta-fsl-ppc layer. QorIQ Layerscape (LS) ARM support will soon be added to the community's meta-fsl-arm layer, and files specific to QorIQ ARM will be denoted with an "ls" prefix. Developers should also be aware that the QorIQ layer recipes pull source from Freescale's Public GIT site: http://git.freescale.com. It is anticipated that both a public mailing list and bug reporting system will be introduced this year by Freescale to support the activity associated with these repositories. All community image recipes, regardless of architecture, may make use of the common base, poky, meta-fsl-demos, and meta-openembedded community layers. Currently, the Freescale supplied demo image recipes targeting QorIQ processors have a "-networking" suffix (e.g., fsl-image-networking.bb).