[meta-ti] [PATCH 1/3] matrix-gui-browser: port from arago overlay

[Maupin, Chase]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denys Dmytriyenko [mailto:denis at denix.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:35 PM
> To: Maupin, Chase
> Cc: Mills, William; meta-ti at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-ti] [PATCH 1/3] matrix-gui-browser: port from
> arago overlay
> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:29:42PM +0000, Maupin, Chase wrote:
> > > > I don't think that was Bill's message. It was simplicity. BSP
> > > only layer, no
> > > > supplemental apps, if not absolutely required.
> > > >
> > > > Your example with lmbench is not correct - BSP layer should
> be
> > > simple enough
> > > > to be used with OE-Core alone to produce a console rootfs
> image
> > > with nothing
> > > > but busybox.
> > > >
> > > > How about splitting meta-ti into:
> > > > * BSP only
> > > > * SGX graphics
> > > > * DSP tools
> > > > * WiFi etc.
> > > >
> > > > And then splitting meta-arago into:
> > > > * Arago distro for TI SDKs
> > > > * Supplemental apps
> > > >
> > >
> > > Need to get my "YES!" in here before everyone barfs all over
> the
> > > proposal :)
> >
> > I'm good with this.  I was also planning in meta-arago to at
> least put all
> > bbappends in a recipes-appends directory so it was easy to track
> the things
> > we are "tweaking" vs. the recipes.  Arago today is too much of a
> mix between
> > amends and recipes in my opinion.  I would even say that Tom's
> proposal
> > (from IRC) of splitting the arago distro and supplemental apps
> into two
> > layers would be a good idea so that other distros can pull our
> supplemental
> > apps if they want pretty easily.  And that way we don?t keep
> adding more
> > repos to manage.
> 
> Actually that was my proposal (and Bill's offline), but never mind
> :)
> 
> As of today's state of Arago - if you don't count recipes/ti, which
> was
> "untouchable" for some special reasons, everything else is quite
> clean with
> using amends everywhere possible! And our of all the people you
> should know
> this better.

There are plenty of recipes in arago outside of the ti directory that are not just amends.  What I am saying is that I would like to split the bbappends into their own directory so that we can more easily track what we are appending and ideally find ways to drive those changes into lower common layers (not that we always can)

> 
> --
> Denys