[OE-core] Piglit in Poky
Koen Kooi
koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Tue Dec 24 14:22:32 UTC 2013
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Burton, Ross schreef op 23-12-13 19:01:
> Hi,
>
> We'd like to integrate Piglit (an OpenGL test suite) into Poky so that we
> can run automated QA on the GL stack. Piglit is currently residing in
> meta-oe, but as Poky is a self-contained project we can't just add
> meta-oe to it: apart from the size of meta-oe, we can't ensure stability
> if meta-oe makes incompatible changes that affect Poky.
>
> Piglit isn't a stand-alone package, there are the dependencies of waffle,
> python-mako and python-numpy to consider too. There are two
> possibilities I can see:
>
> 1) Move piglit and deps to oe-core. Piglit is for QA purposes only and
> pushes the boundaries of "core platform". In a sense this is a repeat of
> the discussion we had with Midori... does oe-core contain everything
> needed to sufficiently exercise the core components it ships or not?
>
> 2) Add piglit and deps to meta-yocto. Probably a new layer called
> meta-yocto-qa (or similar) because the Yocto Compatible guidelines forbid
> mixing distribution policy and recipes.
Speaking of layers, can you *please* rename meta-yocto to meta-poky? It's
what it's actually is and would remove a lot of confusion when trying to
explain that yocto is not a distro, even if the distro layer is called
'meta-yocto'.
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