[meta-ti] [RFC] u-boot recipe naming
Koen Kooi
koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Fri Jan 20 08:40:39 PST 2012
Op 20 jan. 2012, om 16:39 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> 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?
>
> Works for me, but I do hope we need u-boot-ti_git.bb sparingly as I'm
> just using that for requests for Albert to pull into u-boot-arm (it's
> possible that stuff might stay in 'next' for a while, ie when merge
> window closes but I don't want to lose stuff) so please make sure it's
> marked as a rebasing git tree.
It was only mean as an example to illustrate the namespace, if we don't need it, it's one less recipe to support :)
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