From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDOGz-0008Nv-Ga for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:20:07 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDOG9-0000vU-D1 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:19:13 +0100 Received: from ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl ([84.80.112.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:19:12 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:19:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:19:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4CD07F3E.7040703@eukrea.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101002 Shredder/3.0.9pre In-Reply-To: <4CD07F3E.7040703@eukrea.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [RFC] turning conf/machine into a set of bblayers X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:20:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02-11-10 22:14, Eric Bénard wrote: > Hi, > > Le 02/11/2010 21:46, Koen Kooi a écrit : >> I do fear that pulling things into seperate layers too much will make it >> harder to propagate fixes... >> > yes, in your example, the fines in conf/machine/include are common to > all omap boards (and even all cortexa8 for tune-cortexa8.inc) and thus > when fixing one BSP you have to think to fix the others (and to > communicate the fix to other BSP maintainers). > The same apply for most of the .inc in recipes-bsp/*/. > > Do you think the following setup is possible ? > > - ARM overlay (containing all generic files for ARM achitecture : > conf/machines/include for example) > > - OMAP3 overlay (containing all generic files for OMAP3 SOC : > conf/machines/include/omap* + recipes/linux u-boot x-load base files for > omap3 architecture, > > - specific board overlay (conf/machine/themachine.conf + board specific > additions in recipes/linux u-boot & x-load (with patches based on top of > the OMAP3 overlay). That was pretty much what I was thinking, the angstrom-layers stuff is something I need to get working before thursday, so it is a bit hacky. It will get cleaned up after I get back from my holiday :) Hopefully more people have tried different setups and we can bang out a decent RFC. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFM0IBFMkyGM64RGpERAhVvAJ98xHlzrMSjH/d6a5//GQimg89j0wCgnVIs ASfxeRULybqKbDAjBMlwkXg= =tE/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----