On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:30 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > As you know, I've been working on several kernel efforts > around the FSL parts as well (in particular the ones that > have enough pieces upstream to work out of the box). I > definitely don't want to overlap in a way that doesn't > create complimentary efforts. > > What are your current thoughts around kernels and the > (nearly religious) kernel version question ? It would be > great to get some alignment on features (-rt, tracing, > boot, footprint reduction, etc, etc) and save some effort > on maintenance and validation. Also if we want to create > some yocto reference BSPs, having a kernel version and feature > set match is important as well (i.e. what we've done for > the intel ones). > > To that end, do you have an thoughts about using linux-yocto > as a base to any BSP work ? That statement doesn't do it > justice though, since when I say 'use linux-yocto as a base', > it really means that linux-yocto uses your BSPs as an > upstream/official reference and can pull support for them > into branches, and have the configuration and other tooling > get them any functionality that is being developed. > > No control over BSP content, or anything like this, is being > suggested or asserted here. Just looking to all push in the > same direction (embedded features and BSPs to upstream) and > re-use the work of BSPs available in the community. If the > base is the same (and hence kernel version), then this relationship > and workflow is very simple. > > ... and as a bonus, if the workflow doesn't work easily, then > there's a problem with it and we can work on something that > is suitable (change tools, etc).
So just to put what Bruce says into other words, there isn't any hard requirement to use linux-yocto but we are asking people to try it and if it doesn't work, at least tell us why. I understand transitions and new ways of working take time and that meta-fsl-ppc might be enough of a step at first without the linux-yocto complications. That is fine but please do keep it in mind. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
