On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 10:47 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: >> On 5 September 2013 04:35, Darren Hart <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Some of the oe-core changes could be contained in the meta-yocto-bsp >> >> > layer, but >> >> > as these changes come from meta-intel, they are needed by multiple >> >> > layers, and I >> >> > felt it might make more sense in oe-core. If people object to the mga >> >> > or intel >> >> > xserver video drivers, I can respin those for meta-yocto-bsp. >> >> >> >> QEMU does not need them so they should be in meta-yocto-bsp. >> > >> > I'm fine with that if that is the consensus. Does anyone else care to >> > weigh in? >> >> By that logic nearly all the X drivers in oe-core should be in >> meta-yocto-bsp (synaptics, intel, modesetting, omap, omapfb, keyboard, >> mouse), but then we'd be forcing people using anything other than qemu >> to use meta-yocto-bsp (or duplicate the recipes). A more nuanced >> rationale for keeping modesettings/intel/etc is that whilst the driver >> isn't used on QEMU it is in use on a large number of machines so it >> can be centrally maintained in oe-core. I'm not convinced this holds >> for -mga (unless you're reading this from the late 90s) so it should >> be in meta-yocto-bsp. > > There is some thinking going on at the moment about merging genericx86 > and qemux86 since the two machines are converging and any differences > could be dealt with at runtime. To me, this is a key detail. > > I agree that -mga is a push for OE-Core but the other drivers are useful > and I can see a case for moving them towards the core rather than having > several layers needing them.
I am not sure Intel's driver should be in OE-Core; if that's the case we'd need nouveau and ati drivers there as well as they are largely used in PCs. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
