[meta-xilinx] ZC702 support in Xilinx meta-xilinx

[Sipke Vriend]

Hi Elvis,

I don't think your current work has been ignored. It has been of great 
help to me personally, and I thank you for that. 
Please remember that Xilinx is attempting to create a 'bottom rung 
architecture' layer with basic but stable BSPs, which we will support.

To re-iterate from one of our initial emails:
"
Our goals are pretty modest
 * to ensure there is a good quality base layer supporting modern Xilinx 
 SoC architectures - Zynq and MicroBlaze.
 * to consolidate existing efforts into a single meta-xilinx layer, upon 
 which others can build more complex functionality if they need it
 * BSPs for the main customer-visible Zynq boards (ZC702, ZC706, ZedBoard)
 * A generic placeholder MicroBlaze BSP which users can customize manually 
 as required (drop in replacement DTS, CPU tune file etc)
"
Expanding on that (and to hopefully clarify our goal), as you can see from 
the current variety of layers, there is significant variation in individual 
requirements. This is currently achieved through 'parallel' repositories, 
rather than layers. So arguably our main goal is to create a minimalistic base 
architecture layer on top of which other layers can be modified or developed.

The extent of coverage in your current layer is well beyond our scope. Hence
our goal that you (and others, hence Phil's question I presume) will be able 
to layer (in the bitbake layer sense) off this new Xilinx meta layer. You will then
be able to provide the extended features you require but that Xilinx is not 
capable of supporting, as the coverage would be too large.

Regards
Sipke

>-----Original Message-----
>On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 6:54 AM Elvis Dowson wrote:
>
>On Apr 16, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>
>> Will Xilinx take patches adding support for the zc702 to their
>> meta-xilinx layer? I'd like to start adding it to my layer stack so I
>> can make sure it works for me (and I do not get any breakage from the
>> other changes in the layer :)
>> 
>> I am trying to avoid chasing layers to find the best one for each
>> situation and also would like the zynq community to have a central place
>> for a BSP.
>
>Can I ask why everyone's conveniently ignoring the current work done
>by me on the meta-xilinx layer that I maintain? 
>
>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx/
>
>I've already incorporated all the microblaze updates from the Xilinx repository,
>plus it currently has the required support for the ZC702 and ZC706 boards
>at the moment, and is compatible with using .bbappends and uses the
>Xilinx git repository.
>
>Elvis Dowson
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