On 13 September 2017 at 11:24, Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote: >>>> On 10 September 2017 at 14:14, Nathan Rossi <nat...@nathanrossi.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Please note whilst this series is sent for oe-core it may be better >>>>> located in another layer? (e.g. meta-oe). However since the recipes and >>>>> the tools they build are not specific to a single BSP it did not make >>>>> sense to keep in a BSP specific layer. >>>> >>>> >>>> Sounds like a dedicated FPGA layer would be ideal. >>>> >>> >>> I think a layer for 2 recipes might be too much. Put it under >>> recipes-devtools >>> in meta-oe for now. >> >> 5? >> >> Am I reading this patch correctly? There are 5 recipes? > > 2 or 5 doesnt matter I just meant "too few to be a layer of its own" > engineers minds :)
That was my initial thoughts, and I was following your suggestion Khem :). Though it seems like now is probably a reasonable time as any to create a layer to give a home for recipes in the HDL/FPGA space. After all there are other projects that I would like to look at and probably create recipes for in time, so what is now 5 recipes is likely to increase. But I don't like the idea of a FPGA or vendor (e.g. lattice/etc) specific layer since that makes it appear like a BSP layer, and there is the problem of the tools 'conflicting' with proprietary tools those vendors provide. I was thinking of following the approach of a language-like layer similar to how meta-python/meta-rust/etc. are setup, something like meta-hdl? Which would cover the recipes in the language space (simulation/high-level hdl) as well as the recipes that translate/compile HDLs for physical targets (FPGA, CPLD, etc). Regards, Nathan -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
