[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board VOTE: NXP WaRP7 for YP Compatible

[Jeff Osier-Mixon]

Hi folks - NXP has requested YP Compatible status for their WaRP7 IoT
and wearable development platform. This is software currently present
in meta-fsl-arm-extra, but it is a separate project.

Their eventual goal is to have this platform mentioned on the website
in the IoT section, for which I think it is very well suited. However,
that does not affect whether or not it can be listed as YP Compatible.

More info:

[1] https://imxdev.gitlab.io/blog/new_boards/2016/09/05/WaRP7_Launch_and-_Preview/
[2] https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-79058
[3] http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/2.1/
[4] https://github.com/WaRP7

Please take a look at this and vote yes/no. We can also discuss it
briefly at our face to face next week in Berlin, but it looks like a
slam-dunk to me.

   --Contact information--
     Organization: NXP Semiconductors
     Project name: WaRP7: Next gen IoT and Wearable Development
     platform
     Contact name: Daiane Angolini
     Contact email address: daiane.angolini at nxp.com
     URL to organization or product link: www.nxp.com/NXPDesigns/WaRp7
     Registration date: 2016-10-04
     Compliance Agreement revision: 1.0
     Yocto Project Compatible Version: 2.1


Acceptance Criteria:
  - Working towards and supporting the aims and objectives of the Yocto
Project. These include decreasing the fragmentation of embedded ecosystem and
focus around a common shared set of tools, formats and best practices. We
want to avoid multiple groups of people repeating the same work and have one
set of great tools rather than multiple tools with drawbacks.: Yes
  - Promoting the OpenEmbedded architecture, layer model, and BSP format.:Yes
  - Making visible contributions in the OpenEmbedded and component projectsof
the Yocto Project. Please describe your participation in the comments section
below.: Yes
  - Are all your publicly accessible layers listed in the OpenEmbedded Layers
index (http://layers.openembedded.org)?: Yes
  - Be a non-profit, or member of the Yocto Project working group, regardless
of organization size, or if the project's parent organization is an
open-source project.: Yes
  - If the project includes build system functionality, are BitBake and
OpenEmbedded-Core included as components?: Yes
  - If present, can the directories containing BitBake and OpenEmbedded-Core
be clearly identified within the system and only contain those components?:
Yes
  - Have all patches applied to BitBake and OpenEmbedded-Core (if present)
been submitted to the open source community?: Yes
  - Do all layers contain a README file which details the origin of thelayer,
its maintainer, where to submit changes, and any dependencies or version
requirements?: Yes
  - Do all layers build without errors against OpenEmbedded-Core with onlythe
dependencies/requirements listed in their README file?: Yes
  - (For BSPs) Does the layer follow the format defined in the Yocto Project
Board Support Package (BSP) Developers Guide?: Yes
  - Are hardware support, configuration (distro) policy, and recipe metadata
separated into different layers which do not depend on each other?: Yes
  - Is a test report document included showing which combinations of layers,
recipes, and machines have been tested?: No (explain below)
  - If any item in the "Yocto Project Compatible Compliance Recommendations"
list is not true, is this documented in the testing report?: No (explain
below)
Recommendations:
  - Linux kernels are either based around LTSI kernel versions or a Yocto
Project kernel version.: Yes
  - Everything builds successfully with the standard toolchain from OE-Core,
where the architecture is one supported by OE-Core as standard. This is to
ensure that your layers are compatible with OE-Core. It is not required that
the OE-Core toolchain be provided to customers or any downstream projects.:
Yes
Explanation:
We use kernel 4.1.y from https://github.com/WaRP7/linux-fslc
We use the layer meta-fsl-arm-extra which depends on meta-fsl-arm

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Jeff Osier-Mixon - Open Source Community Engineer, Intel Corporation