[meta-ti] Make meta-ti comply with Yocto Project BSP requirements

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-09-14 05:29, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 11:26 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>> On 14/09/12 09:08, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> 3. Inheriting (i.e. inherit systemd) classes from another layer, such as
>>> meta-systemd. This behavior breaks parsing and requires BBMASK-ing those
>>> problematic recipes. Although, it requires an "application" layer and not a
>>> "distribution" one, it's quite bad nonetheless, as it breaks parsing. High
>>> priority.
>>
>> I am not sure about this one; it is reasonable / necessary for a bsp
>> layer to provide an -initd / -systemd packages (e.g., the pvr drivers
>> need this, the gstreamer-ti package needs this), and as long as there is
>> no systemd.bbclass in oe-core, I suspect the only answer is to split the
>> bsp layer into -bsp, -bsp-initd and --bsp-systemd. I am not sure whether
>> such endless proliferation of layers is a particularly good solution?
>
> I don't think PVR modules having a dependency on some particular init
> system is a good thing.
>
> What we need is a good core init system architecture and then these
> pieces can plug into that in whatever way is appropriate.
>
> I appreciate we're not there yet however I think the overall goal of
> separating hardware support from "policy" is a good one. There are a few
> pain points we need to work through but if it was easy, we'd already
> have done it :)
>
> systemd support in OE-Core is being deferred to 1.4 as I want it done
> well and would be too rushed given where we're at in the schedule now.

When that does happen, I hope that it will still be possible to have
a distribution which uses initd.  Will that be the case, or do we all
have to follow down the systemd yellow brick road (which I personally
am not in favour of)?

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