[Openembedded-architecture] patchwork (etc) support for BSP layers (OEDAM 2017)

[Trevor Woerner]

On Mon 2017-03-06 @ 09:03:32 AM, akuster808 wrote:
> On 03/05/2017 09:43 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One of the items discussed over lunch at the recent OEDAM 2017, but that I
> > can't find in the notes, was about including support for more layers in
> > patchwork.
> I believe this was in the context of the sub layers in meta-openembedded.
> OE ( community)  could be driving that work, changes etc.

Funny... I remember it the other way around.

_I_ brought up this topic in the context of meta-rockchip and it was almost
immediately subverted by everyone wanting to talk about Tim Orling's
meta-openembedded split up work ...and here we are again :-(

So, ignoring Tim's work for the time-being, would it be possible for
"non-core" layers (maybe the layers found in the layer index?) to be added to
patchwork (and possibly benefit from other available Yocto tooling)?

When I brought this up RP immediately questioned whether BSP layers should be
hosted on git.yoctoproject.org. Then there was talk about financial
contributions. Then someone suggested the Raspberry Pi foundation might want
to fund some of this infrastructure for meta-raspberrypi. Then we drifted into
the meta-openembedded split-up (and everyone forgot the previous 10 minutes).

:-)