[OE-core] Questions about the layer structure in OpenEmbedded-Core

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:17:52AM +0200, Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> Hi,
> lately I looked a bit into the structure of OE-Core and found pages
> like: http://www.yoctoproject.org/projects/openembedded-core, and
> http://openembedded.org/index.php/LayerIndex
> 
> 1. question: Are these informations reliable (the layer index page
> seems outdated). From the information I found, this graphic was
> created as conclusion:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/155/openembeddedlayers.png/
> 
> 2.: Currently the "UI layer" seems to be contained in
> meta-openembedded, so is this _the_ layer for UI and windowmanager
> recipes or is this a subject to change?
> 
> 3.: The commercial layer is nowhere found, what are the plans for this
> layer, or was this just an idea?

Commercial layers are what envisioned to be provided by OSVs, such as Mentor, 
MontaVista, TimeSys etc...

> 4.: In which layer would distributions fit in the graphic?

In one of the earlier discussions it was said that distribution layer is 
rather vertical and can span across multiple other layers by modifying and 
adjusting different aspects through config files and .bbappends

> 5.: Is something important missing / wrong in my graphic (other than
> the distro stuff)?

-- 
Denys