To help foster fast development, future releases of the Angstrom Distribution that ships with BeagleBoard.org platforms (such as BeagleBone and BeagleBoard-xM) will be built using meta-beagleboard, rather than meta-ti. While this produces the seemingly undesirable effect of providing yet-another-BSP for BeagleBoard.org platforms, collaboration in the mainline kernel and bootloaders that are the key elements for the BSPs has made this possible and multiple goals for the various BSPs has made it desirable.
The objectives for meta-beagleboard are: 1) Provide the best possible out-of-box-experience for BeagleBoard.org platforms 2) Enable as much add-on hardware as possible 3) Enable public contributions to extend the experience and hardware support 4) Deliver information to the BeagleBoard.org community regarding the development status The repository will be hosted at: https://github.com/beagleboard/meta-beagleboard In addition to the many distributions of Linux picking up support for the hardware from the mainline Linux kernel or collaboratively pulling in-work patches from this repository (or the collaborative kernel repository at http://github.com/beagleboard/kernel), there are various OpenEmbedded BSP layers available for BeagleBoard.org platforms with other objectives. These BSPs can be very useful to you depending on your purpose and I've listed some here to position them relative to meta-beagleboard. http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-ti/: * Provide a basis for building TI SDKs * Enable collaborative inputs from community developers seeking to improve the BSPs used in TI SDKs * Deliver BSPs that work with only oe-core required, compatible with meta-yocto, meta-arago and other distro layers * Provide a clear definition of what is supported by TI http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto/: * Provide a reference for building Yocto BSPs * Provide a reference for utilizing a common kernel across Yocto reference platforms meta-beagleboard is seeking to participate in the Yocto Project and provide reference for the other BSPs to utilize. However, its focused objectives enable faster support for BeagleBoard.org platforms. Support for the layer will come from Koen, Joel, myself and other CircuitCo or TI employees supporting BeagleBoard.org---and of course any other people who wish to contribute to the project. Where it is simple and sane to do so, the components in meta-ti will simply be used. I hope you see clear value from the existence of this new layer and how it helps accelerate development and foster both quality and collaboration. Thanks for your kind support. Best regards, Jason Kridner TI and BeagleBoard.org _______________________________________________ meta-ti mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
