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Yocto meta layer for SolidRun Clearfog platforms
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Duplicate meta-clearfog layers #1

Open mirzak opened 5 years ago

mirzak commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I just wanted to bring to your attention that I created a meta-clearfog layer (unofficial) a while back when I had the opportunity to work with Clearfog boards as this did not exist.

https://github.com/mirzak/meta-clearfog

I did report his a while back in on of the other SolidRun layers,

https://github.com/SolidRun/meta-solidrun-bsp/issues/2

Will this layer be officially supported by SolidRun? Might be a good idea to merge these two to avoid duplicate efforts.

baruchsiach commented 5 years ago

Hi @mirzak,

I seem to recall now that I once saw your clearfog layer. I forgot about it when I started work on this one. My main motivation was adding support for the upcoming Clearfog GTR.

Not sure about the "official" part. SolidRun is a hardware company. Sources on github are provided to make life easier for customers. But ultimately, the customer is fully responsible for the software running on purchased hardware.

Feel free to send pull requests for anything you find missing in this layer.

Thanks, baruch

cveilleux commented 5 years ago

@baruchsiach

Just to chime in: Having an officially supported and up-to-date BSP makes a huge difference for us as a potential customer.

We want to build our products on top of a secure, up-to-date and stable BSP. Not fiddle with u-boot and kernel patches endlessly.

Even if there is no guarantee made, the fact that it is there in the open and that there is a community of customers around it makes us much more confortable choosing clearfog as a platform to build upon.

baruchsiach commented 5 years ago

Hi @cveilleux,

SolidRun work hard to make upstream Linux kernel and U-Boot support SolidRun's hardware products out of the box. Notice that Clearfog Base/Pro support in this Yocto layer require no patches. Only Clearfog GTR support needs a few patches that are expected to go upstream soon.

This allows SolidRun customers maximum freedom in their choice of software stack, with as few platform specific hacks as possible.

Integration of platforms support into downstream projects like Yocto, Buildroot, OpenWRT, or Debian, is an ongoing task. The sate of upstream platform support help a lot with that, whether SolidRun engineers are directly involved, or not.