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
