YPS 2023.11 - 2023/11/29 - Bill Mills + Ross Burton - Generic ARM64 for Yocto Project HW reference
The Yocto Project has always had hardware reference machines. You can see them in the meta-yocto-bsp layer.
From the beginning the only ARM reference has been the armv7a (32 bit) Beagle Bone Black. This image is tested on BBB hardware.
For x86-64, a generic x86-64 image is built that can run on most PCs NUC etcs. This image is tested on several hardware machines.
The new generic-arm64 OS image will bring arm64 to partity with the generic-86-64 OS image. It should work on any arm64 hardware that implements the Arm SystemReady specification.
In the 4.4 timeframe we will focus on SystemReady IR (U-boot EFI and Devicetree based) machines with the plans to test on two hardware platforms. SystemReady SR (EDK2 EFI and ACPI based) machines will be testing in later releases.