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Paul Eggleton
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The listing of subcommands in the --help output for devtool was starting to get difficult to follow, with commands appearing in no particular order (due to some being in separate modules and the order of those modules being parsed). Logically grouping the subcommands as well as being able to exercise some control over the order of the subcommands and groups would help, if we do so without losing the dynamic nature of the list (i.e. that it comes from the plugins). Argparse provides no built-in way to handle this and really, really makes it a pain to add, but with some subclassing and hacking it's now possible, and can be extended by any plugin as desired. To put a subcommand into a group, all you need to do is specify a group= parameter in the call to subparsers.add_parser(). you can also specify an order= parameter to make the subcommand sort higher or lower in the list (higher order numbers appear first, so use negative numbers to force items to the end if that's what you want). To add a new group, use subparsers.add_subparser_group(), supplying the name, description and optionally an order number for the group itself (again, higher numbers appear first). (From OE-Core rev: e1b9d31e6ea3c254ecfe940fe795af44761e0e69) Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Poky
====
Poky is an integration of various components to form a complete prepackaged
build system and development environment. It features support for building
customised embedded device style images. There are reference demo images
featuring a X11/Matchbox/GTK themed UI called Sato. The system supports
cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a
standalone toolchain and SDK with IDE integration.
Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports
is available in README.hardware. Further hardware support can easily be added
in the form of layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way.
As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as
BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation and various sources of information
e.g. for the hardware support. Poky is in turn a component of the Yocto Project.
The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a
reference manual which can be found at:
http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
OpenEmbedded-Core is a layer containing the core metadata for current versions
of OpenEmbedded. It is distro-less (can build a functional image with
DISTRO = "nodistro") and contains only emulated machine support.
For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website:
http://www.openembedded.org/
Where to Send Patches
=====================
As Poky is an integration repository (built using a tool called combo-layer),
patches against the various components should be sent to their respective
upstreams:
bitbake:
Git repository: http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/
Mailing list: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
documentation:
Git repository: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/
Mailing list: yocto@yoctoproject.org
meta-yocto(-bsp):
Git repository: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto(-bsp)
Mailing list: poky@yoctoproject.org
Everything else should be sent to the OpenEmbedded Core mailing list. If in
doubt, check the oe-core git repository for the content you intend to modify.
Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current oe-core git
repository.
Git repository: http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/
Mailing list: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Note: The scripts directory should be treated with extra care as it is a mix of
oe-core and poky-specific files.