Re: [docs] would anyone object to my updating "Adding a New Machine"?

Hi,

On Tue Jun 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> this section:
>
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev-manual/new-machine.html
>
> is pretty out of date, using the "crownbay" as an example. any
> interest in me updating it to refer to something current, perhaps
> something rockchip like the orangepi-5-plus, which would show how a
> top-level machine definition file recursively includes more and more
> low-level files to fully define a machine?

I don't see how it is out-of-date, the important variables to set are still
valid.

>   or is there some other modern machine definition that would be
> a better example? or is it not worth the trouble?

This document does not seem to make use of an existing machine at the moment,
and points to meta-yocto to find examples. I think it's fine as it is, unless
you think of other variables that should be part of the important ones.

Antonin