meta-freescale is not listed as dependency

[mlilien]

without meta-freescale a build fails with

ERROR: Unable to start bitbake server (None)
ERROR: Server log for this session (/yocto-build/build/bitbake-cookerdaemon.log):
--- Starting bitbake server pid 185 at 2021-11-19 14:11:10.613496 ---
ERROR: ParseError at /yocto-build/meta-phytec/conf/machine/phyboard-polis-imx8mm-4.conf:8: Could not include required file conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc

[smk-embedded]

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, the notifications slipped through.
You are correct the layer will not build without meta-freescale. The reason is, that we currently only have a vendor BSP from NXP for the 8M Mini. We are planning to have a mainline based BSP, but this is not available at the moment.
So back to your question: We don't want to enter meta-freescale as a hard dependency for the layer, as for other SoCs we are providing mainline BSPs. So e.g. for i.MX6 and 6UL you can build without the complete NXP stack. So to fix that, we have a very complicated dependency, which cannot be handled by yocto straight forward. Have a dependency on meta-freescale, but only if a machine is build, which does not provide a mainline BSP. I don't have a good solution to fix that. I guess a warning would be nice. But we have a lot of documentation if you go through our website and support. For the meta-phytec "bare metal" users, I do not have a nice solution.
What is you specific use case? I can give more details to support your integration attempts.

[mlilien]

Hi, I want to build a lts image for a phytec polis device with as few dependencies as possible. (I'm porting an existing distro, which extends poky, to the polis device.)
Currently my dependencies are meta-phytec, meta-freescale, meta-swupdate, poky, from meta-openembedded: meta-filesystems, meta-networking, meta-oe, meta-python.

I understand that your support of yocto lts releases depends on the NXP vendor bsp. Are you in contact with NXP and know how the support for the next lts release "Kirkstone" will be?

[tremmet]

We do not have an updated Roadmap for 2022 yet. If NXP release schedule in 2022 is similar to the one this year we can expect a Kirkstone release in July 2022.