[oe] [RFC] turning conf/machine into a set of bblayers

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/10/21 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi,
>
> Recipes/linux is a mess and recipes/u-boot is as well. It would be a
> nice topic for OEDEM to see if we discuss switching to a poky BSP model.
> It would boil down to:
>
> 1 base bblayer with shared files:
> * conf/machine/include
> * recipes/linux/*.inc
>
> 1 bblayer per machine or SOC_FAMILY containing:
> * machine.conf
> * first and second stage bootloaders
> * kernel
>
> So, what are peoples thoughts on this? I haven't thought this through
> myself, so feel free to point out any show stoppers.
> I do not want this to turn into a "splitting the metadata" discussion,
> while I'm all for that, it really is a seperate effort and discussion.
> But any bblayer style split would benefit from OE being a collection of
> git submodules instead of a monolithic tree[1].
>
> Regards,
>
> Koen
>
> [1] Provided git submodules stop sucking so hard in future git versions

Replying on the original message on purpose.

Is the discussion concluded?
How do we proceed with this? Should we have a vote? escalate to TSC?
postpone until after the dec 1 release? already do something in a
branch?

Personally I am in favour of the idea.

Best regards, Frans