Adding a board support layer.

Adding a board support layer.

[Nicu Pavel]

Hi,

What's the proper way of adding a new board support layer ? Should I
just add a meta-picosam9 with our kernel recipes and board
configuration and submit a patch ?

Thanks,
Nicu Pavel

Re: Adding a board support layer.

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Nicu Pavel <npavel@mini-box.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the proper way of adding a new board support layer ? Should I
> just add a meta-picosam9 with our kernel recipes and board
> configuration and submit a patch ?

It seems you are interested in layered model which means you will
base your work on oe-core and other layers. Yes writing your own
machine layer is a preferred approach. However you need to host
and maintain the layer. For hosting gihub bitbucket gitorious etc
work good. If you maintain the layer in pretty good shape many
distro's like angstrom might include your machine layer in the
default build

There are some machine layers mentioned here

 http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/LayerIndex

You can use one of those for reference and modelling its upto you

>
> Thanks,
> Nicu Pavel
>
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Re: Adding a board support layer.

[Nicu Pavel]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Nicu Pavel <npavel@mini-box.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's the proper way of adding a new board support layer ? Should I
>> just add a meta-picosam9 with our kernel recipes and board
>> configuration and submit a patch ?
>
> It seems you are interested in layered model which means you will
> base your work on oe-core and other layers. Yes writing your own
> machine layer is a preferred approach. However you need to host
> and maintain the layer. For hosting gihub bitbucket gitorious etc
> work good. If you maintain the layer in pretty good shape many
> distro's like angstrom might include your machine layer in the
> default build
>
> There are some machine layers mentioned here
>
>  http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/LayerIndex
>
> You can use one of those for reference and modelling its upto you

Thanks for the info, I added a layer for our board here:

git://gitorious.org/picopc-tools/meta-picosam9.git

I successfully build kernel and console-image from meta-angstrom layer with it.

Thanks,
Nicu Pavel

Re: Adding a board support layer.

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 01 May 2012 13:51:44 Nicu Pavel wrote:
> Thanks for the info, I added a layer for our board here:
> 
> git://gitorious.org/picopc-tools/meta-picosam9.git
> 
> I successfully build kernel and console-image from meta-angstrom layer with
> it.

Cool, I've added the new layer to the layer index.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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