[OE-core] [PATCH 9/9] populate_sdk_ext: add extensible SDK

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2015 14:41:34 Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Paul Eggleton
>> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > From: Randy Witt <randy.e.witt at linux.intel.com>
>> >
>> > This bbclass will create an SDK with a copy of bitbake and the metadata
>> > and sstate for the target specified for the task. The idea is to let
>> > "system" developers both work on applications and then test adding them
>> > to an image without having to switch between workspaces or having to
>> > download separate items.
>> >
>> > Rather than running bitbake directly however, the primary way of running
>> > builds within the extensible SDK is to use the "devtool" command. The
>> > rest of the build system is fixed via locked shared state signatures,
>> > and thus only the recipes you have added get built.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Randy Witt <randy.e.witt at linux.intel.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>>
>> Why another class? it could be tuned using SDKIMAGE_FEATURES
>
> If you look at what the class does it would be a bit messy to do it that way -
> I wanted to get something working with minimal impact. I don't doubt
> that it could be implemented as an SDKIMAGE_FEATURES item though
> with extra work.

As far this does not gets merged I am fine with that. This is clearly
a WIP code and shouldn't be merged as is.

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