hi there,

over the last few months, we've transitioned the gcc-arm toolchain from meta-linaro-toolchain for master. Since we are approaching the next YP release, I would like to remove/cleanup recipes in meta-linaro-toolchain before we create the dunfell branch.

as of now, meta-linaro-toolchain has the following recipes: gcc_arm-8.2.bb gcc_arm-8.3.bb gcc_arm-9.2.bb gcc_linaro-7.2.bb

including all their usual dependencies, and the 'external' toolchain recipes.

meta-arm-toolchain has gcc_arm-8.2.bb gcc_arm-8.3.bb gcc_arm-9.2.bb

and it's strictly the same metadata, as of now.

As such, I am proposing to remove all recipes from meta-linaro-toolchain master branch, and require every user to transition to meta-arm.

it will effectively become an empty layer.. so I have 2 options: 1. keep an empty layer with conf/layer.conf 2. remove the layer completely (e.g. remote meta-linaro-toolchain folder)

I am not sure which one is better.. #2 will generate an obvious error message for anyone using the layer. Maybe that would be a strong signal..

I will default to #2 right before we create the dunfell branch (in a couple of weeks max), unless someone speaks before that!

Nothing will change of course for our stable branches.

cheers nico