[OE-core] [poky] [PATCH 0/4] Updates in support of genericx86*

[Burton, Ross]

On 5 September 2013 04:35, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > Some of the oe-core changes could be contained in the meta-yocto-bsp layer, but
>> > as these changes come from meta-intel, they are needed by multiple layers, and I
>> > felt it might make more sense in oe-core. If people object to the mga or intel
>> > xserver video drivers, I can respin those for meta-yocto-bsp.
>>
>> QEMU does not need them so they should be in meta-yocto-bsp.
>
> I'm fine with that if that is the consensus. Does anyone else care to
> weigh in?

By that logic nearly all the X drivers in oe-core should be in
meta-yocto-bsp (synaptics, intel, modesetting, omap, omapfb, keyboard,
mouse), but then we'd be forcing people using anything other than qemu
to use meta-yocto-bsp (or duplicate the recipes).  A more nuanced
rationale for keeping modesettings/intel/etc is that whilst the driver
isn't used on QEMU it is in use on a large number of machines so it
can be centrally maintained in oe-core.  I'm not convinced this holds
for -mga (unless you're reading this from the late 90s) so it should
be in meta-yocto-bsp.

Ross