[YOSHI] This topic will be discussed in TSC F2F meeting.
Sean Hudson started a conversation on cip-dev with regards to creating a meta-cip layer to work with OpenEmbedded.
Does the CIP project want to start work on this officially? Or leave it to those outside of the project to come up with their own implementation?
[YOSHI] This is not decided yet. I replied to Sean as he follows:
The goal here is to see if we can actually build file system based on CIP base-layer and Yocto layers by using Poky. Do the same thing as the Project X does but using CIP kernel and limited number of Debian source code AND OE layers.
To make it a bit clearer, I assume the combination as the follows for the goal:
CIP base-layer (Kernel + limited number of long-term supported OSS packages from Debian) + Poky + OE-layers
But the following combination might be a good at starting point.
CIP kernel + Poky + OE-layer
Originally it was the aim of the project to support both Debian and Yocto distributions.
[YOSHI] This is not exactly correct. Originally, Project X focus to make minimal deployable file system image by using Bitbake or Debian build system and Debian source code with CIP kernel. It was not aim to support Yocto distribution itself, because we are difficult to support two code base.
Options to add Yocto support:
a) Create a new project like Project-X (Project-Y?)
This would keep both distributions completely separate
b) Enhance Project-X (CIP-Core) with a meta-cip layer
This would allow both distributions to be “CIP-Core”, but I’m not sure how such an implementation would work.
Kas project could be an option to implement both in one.