[yocto] meta-zephyr layer

[Bystricky, Juro]

you need poky to build QEMUs and toolchains

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Balister [mailto:philip at balister.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 2:19 PM
> To: Bystricky, Juro <juro.bystricky at intel.com>; yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] meta-zephyr layer
> 
> Does that work without poky?
> 
> Philip
> 
> On 12/12/2016 02:15 PM, Bystricky, Juro wrote:
> > There is interest in the community to support building Zephyr images
> > ( https://www.zephyrproject.org/ )in Yocto via bitbake recipes.
> > AFAIK the only way thus far to build Zephyr images is based on command
> > line/Kconfig, similar to building Linux kernel images.
> >
> > Building of Zephyr images in Yocto can now be done fairly unobtrusively
> > via a new layer "meta-zephyr" and specifying a new distro in local.conf:
> > DISTRO="zephyr"
> >
> > The repository for the meta-zephyr is here:
> > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=juro/meta-
> zephyr.
> >
> > The new meta-zephyr layer contains several recipes to build (and run
> > in QEMUs) various Zephyr tests. There is also a sample recipe to build
> > Zephyr sample "philosophers" with instructions how to run it in QEMU.
> >
> > This is the first kick at the can.
> > At present, only x86 and ARM CortexM3 toolchains are supported, with
> > more coming eventually. (Zephyr also supports BSPs for ARC, Nios2, IAMCU,
> > and Xtensa and RISC-V coming in the next release)
> >
> > The new meta-zephyr is work based on previous original work by
> > Randy Witt and Richard Purdie, so it is actually a second kick at the
> can.
> >
> > This is a work in progress, any feedback is appreciated.
> >
> > Juro
> >
> >