Re: [poky] [PATCH] genericarm64.conf: override poky-altcfg distro kernel version

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 at 12:28, Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to serve users who would like to see the known
> working configuration of systemd and latest stable kernel as output
> from the Yocto Project. If something in that working configuration
> breaks, then its up to me as co-maintainer of genericarm64 to fix it.
>
> I'm sorry that this does not convince you. I've tried to help with
> U-Boot, kernel etc genericarm64 BSP updates and IMO done quite a bit of
> development work in linux-yocto kernel to get it working on more HW.
>
> Sounds like building this genericarm64 "known good config" should
> move to outside of oe-core and meta-yocto, maybe meta-arm then.

Let me take a moment to explain why I am not convinced.

"I have users who are paying me to do X" is not an argument that can
ever work well with me personally. What would work much better is "X
is a good thing for the Yocto Project in the long run, and open source
ecosystem in general". And you can't possibly make that argument when
X is "let's be complicit in (or actively work towards!) systemd
creeping in as a hard requirement to run Linux".

Alex