[meta-ti] meta-ti layer confusion
Koen Kooi
koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Tue Apr 24 23:19:32 PDT 2012
Op 25 apr. 2012, om 08:08 heeft Steffen Sledz het volgende geschreven:
> On 20.04.2012 15:47, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>> 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]?
>
> Any objections if i remove [3] from the LayerIndex?
Yes
>
> After your comments i think that this one is just a kind of a staging area.
And you're thinking wrong
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