On 8/25/2015 9:29 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Ann Thornton <ra43240@freescale.com> wrote:
These image recipes and packagegroups were designed to simplify the merge of
QorIQ and i.MX into a single Yocto project repository. The image recipes
can be used for any machine and are designed to replace the previous recipes.

The packagegroups divide content into functionality groups with levels for
minimal to full images.  They also check for compatibilty so that they should
work with any machine.
I have did a first review in the proposed patches and I think there is
a need for a comparing of existing packagegroups with the proposed
ones. The proposed ones has equivalent ones already included (for
graphics and benchmark for example) and it indicates the internal
review of the feasibility and features offered by the current ones has
not been done as needed.

Please check the existing ones and propose patches to extend them for
what they are missing; those seem more polished than the ones proposed
and more granular as well.

Another thing I would like to use is a fsl-image-networking and
fsl-image-virtualization images instead of 'core' and 'extended' as it
looks like images without a clear purpose and this is confusing for
the users.


The reason for having the core and extended variants is because QorIQ needs to be able to generate smaller images and we want to make things as common as possible.  We don't want to have image recipes that are completely tied to only one business group.  The way we came up to do that was with the 4 different "levels" of recipes and corresponding packagegroups.

I can modify and re-use existing recipes, although we thought that would be riskier than making new ones.

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Ann Thornton

Microcontrollers Software and Applications
Freescale Semiconductors
email: Ann.Thornton@freescale.com