From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dan.rpsys.net (dan.rpsys.net [93.97.175.187]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834FF61788 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r85BIdCh004965; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 12:19:54 +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at dan.rpsys.net Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id hM7BMQt0rw3J; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 12:19:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] (rpvlan0 [192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r85BJmwR004978 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 5 Sep 2013 12:19:49 +0100 Message-ID: <1378379194.32427.33.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: "Burton, Ross" Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:06:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1378352101.14029.52.camel@dvhart-mobl4.amr.corp.intel.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: yunguo.wei@windriver.com, Darren Hart , Poky , Otavio Salvador , Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: [poky] [PATCH 0/4] Updates in support of genericx86* X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:07:03 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 10:47 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 5 September 2013 04:35, Darren Hart wrote: > >> > Some of the oe-core changes could be contained in the meta-yocto-bsp layer, but > >> > as these changes come from meta-intel, they are needed by multiple layers, and I > >> > felt it might make more sense in oe-core. If people object to the mga or intel > >> > xserver video drivers, I can respin those for meta-yocto-bsp. > >> > >> QEMU does not need them so they should be in meta-yocto-bsp. > > > > I'm fine with that if that is the consensus. Does anyone else care to > > weigh in? > > By that logic nearly all the X drivers in oe-core should be in > meta-yocto-bsp (synaptics, intel, modesetting, omap, omapfb, keyboard, > mouse), but then we'd be forcing people using anything other than qemu > to use meta-yocto-bsp (or duplicate the recipes). A more nuanced > rationale for keeping modesettings/intel/etc is that whilst the driver > isn't used on QEMU it is in use on a large number of machines so it > can be centrally maintained in oe-core. I'm not convinced this holds > for -mga (unless you're reading this from the late 90s) so it should > be in meta-yocto-bsp. There is some thinking going on at the moment about merging genericx86 and qemux86 since the two machines are converging and any differences could be dealt with at runtime. To me, this is a key detail. I agree that -mga is a push for OE-Core but the other drivers are useful and I can see a case for moving them towards the core rather than having several layers needing them. Cheers, Richard