meta-lxatac-software: bcu: add recipe for nxp board control utilities

[hnez]

The bcu command is used to communicate with board control hardware on NXP development boards to:

• reset / power cycle the board into a specified boot mode
• monitor the power consumption
• eeprom read / write
• temperature measurements

Sadly the board I tried to use this with is not actually supported, so I could only check that it builds and shows the help message. It also discovered the FTDI device on the board, so that seems to work as well.

[jluebbe]

There is a open PR (https://github.com/labgrid-project/labgrid/pull/1273) to support BCU via labgrid.

[jluebbe]

What is the status of the libcurl patch? Could it be upstreamed?

[hnez]

What is the status of the libcurl patch? Could it be upstreamed?

I had a quick look at it and it looks to me like that would require changes to the build system for macOS, linux and windows, making testing the changes a chore. Since we do not have a real usecase for bcu yet and only wanted to check it out for fun, I don't think it is worth it to put in the effort.

I'd say we close this PR for now and have a second look once an actual usecase arises.

[jluebbe]

What is the status of the libcurl patch? Could it be upstreamed?

I had a quick look at it and it looks to me like that would require changes to the build system for macOS, linux and windows, making testing the changes a chore. Since we do not have a real usecase for bcu yet and only wanted to check it out for fun, I don't think it is worth it to put in the effort.

I'd say we close this PR for now and have a second look once an actual usecase arises.

I'd also be OK with at least reporting this as an issue to upstream and then pointing to that issue in a patch status header. Perhaps that way, it's solved upstream by the time we get around to updating it.

[hnez]

Hi @jluebbe,

now that we have an Upstream-Status entry, do we want this recipe in meta-lxatac?