[meta-intel] BSP retirements from meta-intel layer

[Keskinarkaus, Teemu]

> From: meta-intel-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-intel-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Chris Tapp
>
> Following on from the "chiefriver BSP retirement thread", what is the general
> policy for BSP life-cycles within meta-intel?
>
> For example, we committed to using the Cedartrail BSP a couple of years back as
> if offered support for what was then a new platform with a reasonable forward
> buy-time. However, support for that has been dropped even though boards are
> still available using the chipset (e.g. ASRock DN2800MT) and these are going to
> be available for a few years yet.
>
> From our point of view it is a pity not to be able to make use of the improvements
> and enhancements that have gone into later Yocto versions, especially as we're
> continually updating our software.

This interests me as well since we have been planning on using Yocto on our HW for a long time. We also noticed the drop of Cedartrail BSP and we ended up on porting it to newer Yocto ourselves which of course wasn't what we were hoping to get when switching to Yocto.

Teemu Keskinarkaus
Software system engineer

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