Re: BSP Packagegroup

[Ann Thornton <Ann.Thornton@freescale.com>]

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For packagegroup divisions, how about
graphics
multimedia
networking
tools
(probably others I haven't thought of)

Each of those groups might be further divided into minimal, core, demos, 
extended as needed.

Each packagegroup could check DISTRO-FEATURES, etc so that they would be 
as generic as possible.

Then recipes could include the level of detail desired and they would 
work across product lines.

Ann Thornton

On 7/9/2015 9:56 AM, Daiane Angolini wrote:
> For me, packagegroup is only a set of packages wrapped together to
> make my life easier.
>
> Should BSP provide packagegroups to ease the addition (and removal) of
> set o BSP packages, or their “functional” dependency. For example an
> application such as aplay is needed to stress the audio functionality,
> even though there is no dependency from alsa driver from kernel with
> alsa-utils. Should BSP provide packagegroups?
>
> I think offering packagegroup options to enable BSP pieces may really
> ease the BSP usage, however I main point here is how far should BSP
> go. What is the limit between a BSP packagegroup and a "demo"
> packagegroup (as we does in meta-fsl-demos)?
>
> Thinking about a package group to provide BSP packages related with
> VPU, in my opinion it should have:
>
> * VPU firmware
> * VPU lib
>
> In case I’m using gstreamer, I would like a packagegroup like:
>
> * VPU firmware
> * VPU lib
> * gstreamer plugins for VPU (gstreamer-imx or gst1.0-fsl-plugin)
>
> In case I’m using gstreamer with kernel mainline:
>
> * VPU firmware
> * gstreamer
>
>
> Should mp3 encoder (such as lame) be part of a BSP packagegroup? And
> in GPU case? Would DEPENDS and PROVIDES be enough to include needed
> packages?
>
> Should meta-fsl-arm (or meta-freescale) provide a bluetooth BSP
> packagegroup even though there is no special hardware acceleration
> provided by meta-fsl-arm for bluetooth?
>
>
> Daiane


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Ann Thornton

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