[meta-freescale] [ANN] Vybrid support going to be removed if no one jumps in for proper maintenance

[Fabio Estevam]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> The Vybrid support in the meta-fsl-arm is mostly dead upstream as they
> are non-responsive for the requests we did[1]. In other occasions I
> tried to contact them privately asking for their help and there
> without success.
>
> 1. https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-August/015665.html
>
> The kernel is quite old (3.0.15) and has problems building with
> current toolchain (GCC 5.2) and several known security flaws.
>
> Is there someone willing to adopt it? otherwise I plan to send a
> removal patch for it in next coming days.

Looks like a good idea.

Mainline kernel support for Vybrid has been improving a lot. Toradex
folks have been doing a great job in this front.