[OE-core] [poky] Piglit in Poky

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 04:09:10PM +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Despite a good start this thread got rapidly hijacked, so let's try again!
> 
> On 24 December 2013 01:09, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > I expect Richard will push back on this, and I would support him here.
> 
> Probably best to let Richard speak for himself here. :)
> 
> >> 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.  We'd need to sync
> >> meta-yocto-qa with the pieces of meta-oe that we want somehow, but
> >> that's our problem.
> >
> > So meta-yocto is right out. I'm a user of numpy, and I certainly do not
> > want to include something called meta-yocto-qa just to pick up numpy.
> 
> Right, so my point with the syncing was that this meta-yocto-qa layer
> would be a copy of recipes from other places through combo-layer, and
> would be clearly marked as such.
> 
> Reviewing the options:
> 
> 1) Add python-mako, python-numpy, waffle and piglit to oe-core, for
> all BSPs to use.
> 2) Add python-mako, python-numpy, waffle and piglit to meta-yocto
> (effectively read-only clones with combo-layer, maintained in meta-oe
> still) for Poky to use.
> 3) Add meta-python layer to Poky, and waffle/piglit to meta-yocto
> (read-only clones) for Poky to use.

4) meta-python in meta-oe (at least for easier copy somewhere else with combo-layer)

> 
> Paul raises a good point about other BSPs potentially using Piglit to
> test their GL stacks.  Do any other BSPs test their GL integration,
> and if so what tooling to they use?  I'm only pushing for Piglit
> because it's what the Intel driver team use to test Mesa, but if
> nobody else wants to use it then that's an argument for keeping it in
> Poky (or even cloning it into meta-intel?).
> 
> Ross
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