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NXP also nuked a lot of their free support from orbit when they bought Freescale. Doing stuff like deleting a bunch of the SD card images for their sabre boards. We were told by NXP that some Indian support firm still had them for like... a $20k support contract.

They really pissed us off with that crap, and our shop at least probably won't be buying NXP parts for a while.



Why couldn't you rebuild the SD image from Yocto?


> Why couldn't you rebuild the SD image from Yocto?

Because the vendor should provide an SDK for development?

It's fine if the vendor's image is based on Yocto, but you should still be able to download something from them with instructions.


Because the vendor should provide an SDK for development?

That's literally what Yocto builds for you.

you should still be able to download something from them with instructions.

As an example, here's Freescale/NXP's github with their Yocto recipes. It was not "nuked from orbit" on the purchase.

https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform

And a sample build guide:

http://www.nxp.com/assets/documents/data/en/release-notes/IM...




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