[meta-ti] [RFC] u-boot recipe naming

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Fri Jan 20 06:20:13 PST 2012


Op 20 jan. 2012, om 15:07 heeft Andreas Müller het volgende geschreven:

> On Friday, January 20, 2012 01:41:51 PM Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We currently have a problem with other layers including their own version
>> of u-boot_2011.12.bb which confuses bitbake. To avoid such hassle in the
>> future I'm going to propose using the kernel naming scheme for u-boot
>> recipes as well:
>> 
>> u-boot-denx_2011.12.bb -> u-boot from git.denx.de master + patches
>> u-boot-ti_git.bb -> u-boot from git.denx.de ti branch + patches
>> u-boot-psp-<soc>_git.bb -> u-boot from psp tree for $SoC + patches e.g.
>> u-boot-psp-am18x_git.bb
>> 
>> This should avoid filename based conflicts between layers and make it
>> clearer which tree the recipe will be building.
>> 
>> Thoughts/flames/opinions?
>> 
>> regards,
>> 
>> Koen
> Additional: How about exceeding the u-boot.inc ( linux.inc too? ) filenames by 
> the layer name they live in, so other layers don't need to copy & paste ( 
> happend yesterday after meta-ettus fallout - know it is worked around now ).

I would suggest moving those into meta-oe and making then raise priority in meta-oe. Or just not using .inc files :(


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