OpenBMC and the Yocto Project

[Richard Purdie]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the reply!

On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 10:46 +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-10-22 at 21:33 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 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.

I was hoping I could find who was interested and then dive into the
detail off list as it didn't seem like the usual kind of content for
this list. I've copied Megan who is working on this from the Yocto
Project side.

I'll use that list as a starting point if I don't hear from anyone
else, thanks. Worse case I can probably find the email addresses from
the archives or from git.

> > 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 :)

Great, thanks! :)

> > 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


It looks like the new QA warnings/errors, which you're doing the right
thing in fixing and the WORKDIR/UNPACKDIR changes which are a bit
invasive unfortunately. Did you manage to get things working with those
or were there further issues? I'm afraid I don't really understand
gerrit, the UI makes my head hurt!

Cheers,

Richard