[meta-ti] meta-ti layer confusion

Steffen Sledz sledz at dresearch-fe.de
Fri Apr 20 06:47:32 PDT 2012


On 20.04.2012 15:20, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:20:47AM +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>> Our company is working on a new TI DM814x based hardware currently.
>>
>> That's a really hard job, because the TI linux support is not really "optimal". But that's not the primary cause for my message.
>>
>> [1] lists two TI BSP layers [2],[3] each one claiming to be "The official OpenEmbedded/Yocto BSP layer for Texas Instruments platforms.".
>>
>> A look into them shows that they are not identically. At the moment they differ in two commits ([3] is ahead of [2]). In the last days these differences where much bigger.
>>
>> So what is the intention for these two "offical" layers?
>>
>> Which one should we use? And why?
>>
>> BTW: Is anyone else out there working on a TI DM814x/DM816x hardware?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steffen
>>
>> [1] <http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/LayerIndex>
>> [2] <http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-ti/>
>> [3] <https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/meta-ti>
> 
> They are the same. Or more appropriately, there is just one official meta-ti 
> layer, it's just mirrored in several places. The one on yoctoproject.org[2] is 
> considered the official mirror and that's what you should use. If you are 
> subscribed to this list, you should have seen Koen posting 2 patches for 
> review yesterday, which he has staged to his working copy on github[3] - 
> that's the difference in 2 commits. They shouldn't have been pushed to the 
> master branch though, until they are accepted...

Why are they both listed in [1]?

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