[meta-freescale] [PATCH] remove ppc machine

[Bob Cochran]

On 09/07/2017 02:35 AM, Zhenhua Luo wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> Please see my inline comments.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Cochran [mailto:yocto at mindchasers.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 9:30 PM
>> To: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo at nxp.com>; meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
>> Cc: C.r. Guo <chunrong.guo at nxp.com>; otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
>> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] [PATCH] remove ppc machine
>>
>> On 09/06/2017 08:35 AM, Zhenhua Luo wrote:
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> SDK 2.0 1703 GA release is the last QorIQ SDK(Yocto based) which supports
>> both PPC and ARM targets, Layerscape SDK(Ubuntu userland based) has replaced
>> QSDK, only ARM machines will be supported. The first formal release is LSDK-
>> 1706 which has been announced and available in both http://www.nxp.com and
>> https://lsdk.github.io/.
>>> In future, the Yocto recipes for ARM targets will continue to be updated in
>> meta-freescale & meta-freescale-distro layers to align with new LSDK releases,
>> the recipes of PPC will be removed. The bug fixes of PPC targets will be merged
>> in legacy branches of corresponding Yocto layers.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the reply and information Zhenhua.
>>
>> So, 2.4/rocko won't have any powerpc support from NXP on
>> meta-freescale.
> [Zhenhua Luo] Yes
>
>> Again, I think this is a mistake since meta-freescale
>> isn't only for the exclusive use of NXP developers.
>>
>> I suppose the Yocto project should also purge mpc8315e-rdb.conf from meta-
>> yocto-bsp master to completely kill off PPC from Yocto going forward.
> [Zhenhua Luo] mpc8315erdb is selected as a sample BSP of PPC by Yocto community, the recipes of this board are totally from poky instead of meta-freescale, actually QSDK doesn't support this PPC machine for years. The source of boards support in meta-freescale layer is from QSDK/LSDK, since LSDK doesn't support PPC, we removed PPC targets from meta-freescale layer.

Thank you Zhenhua for the further information.

I have been reading through the Layerscape SDK documentation and working 
with flexbuild.  Since this doesn't use the Yocto Project build system, 
I had assumed NXP was going to cease with Yocto Project activities, 
which I thought was very disappointing. However, from your comments, it 
seems the opposite is true.

Can you please confirm the following:

NXP will continue supporting Yocto Project / meta-freescale for the 
Layerscape devices supported by the LSDK; however, NXP will no longer 
formally release any new SDK based on Yocto.

If this isn't true, then please clarify.

Thanks again,

Bob




>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Zhenhua
>
>> Should I submit the patch?
>>
>> RIP NXP PPC
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>