OpenBMC and the Yocto Project

[Andrew Jeffery]

Hi Richard,

On Tue, 2024-10-22 at 21:33 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know OpenBMC uses the Yocto Project and we occasionally see patches
> from you. Some of the companies involved are Yocto Project members.
> 
> We're working on creating better information about who is using Yocto
> Project and thought that the BMC use case might make an interesting
> example.
> 

Nice!

>  I looked through the openBMC docs but couldn't really work out
> who the right people/group to talk to was about that.
> 

Posting to the list is fine, though getting in touch with the current
members of the Technical Oversight Forum is probably the answer to your
question:

https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/tof/membership-and-voting.md

... we should probably put the email addresses of the members into that
table.

>  Is such a case
> study something the project would be interested in and is there someone
> we could work with on that? It should be good PR for both projects.

I'm interested in it, at least :)

> 
> While I'm here I've also wondered how you're finding Yocto Project and
> if there is anything we need to discuss. We tend to assume things must
> be ok or you'd be talking to us but if that isn't the case, let us
> know!

I've Cc'ed Andrew Geissler and Patrick Williams who have been battling
some turbulence with recent OE updates in OpenBMC.

There's a series ending roughly at the patch below that's trying to
deal with the fallout:

https://gerrit.openbmc.org/c/openbmc/openbmc/+/75338

Andrew