On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:46:36AM -0400, Jason Kridner wrote: > 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.
Thank you, Jason! Before everyone freaks out - this is a good thing. This will enable meta-ti and meta-beagleboard to achieve their respective goals, as it relates to the common BeagleBone and BeagleBoard-xM platforms, w/o slowing or impeding each other. Thank you for your understanding. -- Denys > 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 _______________________________________________ meta-ti mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
