[OE-core] [PATCH] arm-trusted-firmware: add upstream version 2.2

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:10 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/23/20 4:05 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 04:43:23PM -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:00 PM Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> >>> From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> >>>
> >>> Many BSPs require ARM Trusted Firmware (also known as Trusted Firmware-A).
> >>> To avoid duplicating efforts of adding very similar recipes to BSP layers,
> >>> add an upstream reference implementation to openembedded-core, which can be
> >>> customized by BSPs, if needed.
> >> Isn't this one of the things that Jon Mason is trying to
> >> standardize/support in meta-arm ?
> >>
> >> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-arm/tree/meta-arm/recipes-bsp/trusted-firmware-a
> > Ah, interesting, somehow I totally missed that one! :)
> >
> > What triggered this submission is that we have our own variant in meta-ti and
> > Joshua Watt was adding a very similar one to meta-rockchip:
> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/70054501#48116
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> FWIW, variants of this recipe crop up in pretty much every ARM-based BSP
> layer (e.g.
> https://github.com/alistair23/meta-pine64/blob/master/recipes-bsp/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware_2.1.bb);
> it seems common enough that a base recipe that each BSP layer can
> bbappend to suite their needs seems like it would be useful?

Jon had some ideas about that, but I admit to only being an interested
party and since I was aware of what he was up to, that I'd draw him
into the conversation.

Definitely a good thing to get some sort of centralized base recipe,
that can be extended by layers.

Bruce

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> >> What's the delta between the two ?
> > Hmm, that one uses older 2.1 version. Other than that, I'll need to test to
> > see if it's as adaptable and expandable as our more simplistic variants...
> >



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