Hi Dimitris,
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:07 PM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Enrico, > > I'm totally positive to any possibility for such integration. Personally, > that was the first thing I've tried to do before I start this layer, but I've > failed as it got really complex and the overhead was too much after some > point (at least for me). If you have look it's actually a mix of meta-sunxi > and armbian, but I had to remove or change many stuff to fit the armbian in > the layer. > > If you have time to have a look to my layer and you think that such kind of > integration is possible and can be done in a more easy way, then from my side > I'm all in. > I believe that re-using the armbian patches is easier as it makes maintenance > much easier, there are more supported SBCs and also there is much more > testing involved in armbian and frequent updates fix those bugs. I did check your layer and it seems that you're not using sunxi-mali for opengl HW acceleration only mesa so SW rendering? Thanks. > > Please consider it and I can help as much as I can and my time allows for > that integration. > > Regards, > Dimitris > > Marek > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:56 PM Enrico <ebut...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:06 PM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimt...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > I was thinking about this also, too. The only reason is that in >> > > meta-sunxi they do a great job and they keep their layer clean, which is >> > > great I think. The other layers are just based on the armbian distro, >> > > which is a lot different, but for me it was much easier to integrate >> > > their patches, patching scripts and bootloader scripts to a Yocto layer. >> > > That way the only thing I do is that from time to time I just integrate >> > > their new patches and that's it. There's no development in the layer is >> > > just re-use of the armbian work and a wrapper around it. Therefore, it's >> > > hard, even no doable to put those different architectures together. But >> > > definitely that decision also bothered me a lot before I create the >> > > layer and I also don't like time to be spend on the same thing from >> > > different people. Nevertheless, from my point of view I couldn't find a >> > > way to put those things together. I've tried but I couldn't do it. >> > > >> > > Therefore, it was easier for me to do it the way I've done it. And after >> > > all, although it doesn't seem right, at the same time this is the beauty >> > > of the open source. I think the layers are just incompatible in the way >> > > that they are do things. Also it's not bad to have alternatives. >> > > >> > > Sunxi is a great community and I believe many of the armbian patches are >> > > coming from there. Others not. Of course, having them all together would >> > > be nice. But I don't think that it's possible because of the different >> > > approach. >> >> It would be great to integrate all those different layers in >> meta-sunxi,the main problem is that usually they come with their own >> bootloader/kernel/etc.... so you have to *maintain* all these >> different configurations. >> Infact in the past i refused to do such things because i didn't have >> the time to maintain all those different versions, it was just easier >> to support what was already in mainline uboot/kernel. >> >> But of course if someone wants to do it then it's welcome, the worst >> thing that can happen is that once an arch gets unmaintained it will >> be removed. >> >> One thing that can be done anyway is to have those external layers >> linked in the readme, so at least people will know they exist. >> >> Enrico -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
