Deprecation notice: meta-barebox was a software layer for the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded build system which provided support for the barebox bootloader. The layer was under active development from 2016 until 2024. The supported Yocto versions range from 2.3 (pyro) up to 5.1 (styhead). With the release of Yocto version 5.2 (walnascar), barebox is now officially supported by openembedded-core.

That means meta-barebox has fulfilled its purpose and is now obsolete. This layer has been renamed from meta-barebox to meta-barebox-legacy in order to free up the original name in the OpenEmbedded layer index, in case anybody wants to start a new layer that is related to barebox. The layer's Git repository has not been renamed so legacy users won't be disrupted.

meta-barebox is a software layer for the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded build system which provides support for the barebox bootloader.

This README.md file contains information on the contents of the meta-barebox layer.

Please see the corresponding sections below for details.

1. Dependencies
2. Contributing
   1. Maintainers
3. Adding meta-barebox to your build
4. Additional documentation

This layer depends on:

URI: git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake branch: master URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core layers: meta branch: master 

Please use the infrastructure provided by GitHub to submit pull requests or report issues.

If you don't have a GitHub account, you can alternatively send your patches to the maintainers listed below.

When sending patches or pull requests, please adhere to some common practices when writing your commit messages:

• Please limit the line lenght in the commit message to 80 characters where possible (If you use vim, then gq is your friend).
• Please add a Signed-off-by statement (git commit -s, see also Developer Certificate of Origin).

• Dennis Menschel <menschel-d@posteo.de>

In order to use this layer, you need to make the build system aware of it.

Assuming the meta-barebox layer exists at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can add it to the build system by adding the location of the meta-barebox layer to bblayers.conf, along with any other layers needed. e.g.:

BBLAYERS ?= " \  /path/to/yocto/meta \  /path/to/yocto/meta-poky \  /path/to/yocto/meta-yocto-bsp \  /path/to/yocto/meta-barebox \ "

The barebox layer has its own reference manual with detailed information about its interface and how to use it.