As you know, I've been working on several kernel efforts around the FSL parts as well (in particular the ones that have enough pieces upstream to work out of the box). I definitely don't want to overlap in a way that doesn't create complimentary efforts.
What are your current thoughts around kernels and the (nearly religious) kernel version question ? It would be great to get some alignment on features (-rt, tracing, boot, footprint reduction, etc, etc) and save some effort on maintenance and validation. Also if we want to create some yocto reference BSPs, having a kernel version and feature set match is important as well (i.e. what we've done for the intel ones).
To that end, do you have an thoughts about using linux-yocto as a base to any BSP work ? That statement doesn't do it justice though, since when I say 'use linux-yocto as a base', it really means that linux-yocto uses your BSPs as an upstream/official reference and can pull support for them into branches, and have the configuration and other tooling get them any functionality that is being developed.
No control over BSP content, or anything like this, is being suggested or asserted here. Just looking to all push in the same direction (embedded features and BSPs to upstream) and re-use the work of BSPs available in the community. If the base is the same (and hence kernel version), then this relationship and workflow is very simple.
... and as a bonus, if the workflow doesn't work easily, then there's a problem with it and we can work on something that is suitable (change tools, etc).
Thanks,
Bruce
What I'm envisioning as a start is we'd offer a meta layer on yocto sites for the upstream supported boards & feature set.
I'm still looking at what we do for a FSL delivered BSP (via freescale.com) that would be based on that. My initial concerns are that the yocto community will probably move and change things too frequently for our customer base (kernel version, toolchain version, etc). Thus my thinking of de-coupling the two a bit. The yocto versions of BSPs would track yocto development. The FSL delivered BSPs would probably track to an older yocto version & slower update cycle.
