[meta-ti] meta-ti layer confusion

[Steffen Sledz]

On 25.04.2012 08:19, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> 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

Which objections are these?

Why are they both *needed* in the LayerIndex?

>> After your comments i think that this one is just a kind of a staging area.
> 
> And you're thinking wrong

So please explain this to us.

What we've seen in the last days is that there were commits in [3] which were not accepted at that moment. In the moment they got accepted they made their way to [2]. I would call this a staging area.

Regards,
Steffen

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