On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 14:05, Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]> wrote: > There isn't much documentation. It's more about just doing it and resolving > any issues > you find. For example BSP deliveries from vendors frequently only support > older yocto branches. > These should not dictate the poky release for the full SW stack when for > example only kernel > and bootloader are needed from their delivery. Thus using older BSP layer > with the kernel > and other recipes with a newer poky is a matter of configuring the build > system and resolving > any build failures from e.g. newer poky and gcc. The layer compatibility > setting meant to warn > and prohibit from doing this, but this can be overruled in other layers by > setting > e.g. LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_security-layer += "mickledore kirkstone" in > layer.conf of your own > layers. If large parts of a layer (BSP) are not needed in your configuration > and cause > build issues, then those can be hidden by setting BBMASK for those paths.
Mikko, please. Yes, you can work around all these restrictions with some determination, but they exist for good reasons. So can you avoid giving newcomers bad advice, and instead dig into the actual problem they have? Pretty please. Alex
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