I followed the documentation mentioned at https://community.nxp.com/thread/333571. As mentioned there I inserted two layers as meta-fsl-arm & meta-fsl-arm-extra. There yocto building is done successfully but at booting time it is giving System Halted massage after kernel boot. Please get the total kernel logs below. U-Boot 2011.12 (Jul 18 2016 - 14:46:44) CPU: Freescale VyBrid 600 family rev1.3 at 0 MHz Reset cause: <NULL> Board: Cosmic for phyCORE-Vybrid DRAM: 256 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: 512 MiB MMC: FSL_SDHC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: Link UP timeout FEC1 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 reading uImage-3.0-ts-armv7l 2521804 bytes read ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80010000 ... Image Name: Linux-3.0.15 Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 2521740 Bytes = 2.4 MiB Load Address: 80008000 Entry Point: 80008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Loading Kernel Image ... OK OK Starting kernel ... Linux version 3.0.15 (ganindya@Ani) (gcc version 4.9.3 20150529 (release) [ARM/embedded-4_9-branch revision 227977] (GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors) ) #1 Mon Jul 18 14:53:58 IST 2016 CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc051] revision 1 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7d CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache Machine: PHYTEC Cosmic Board for phyCORE-Vybrid Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 65024 Kernel command line: rw mem=256M console=ttymxc1,115200n8 init=/sbin/init root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait rootfstype=ext2 mtdparts=NAND:256k(spare),256k(bootloader),128k(env),4m(kernel),-(rootfs) PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Memory: 256MB = 256MB total Memory: 254648k/254648k available, 7496k reserved, 0K highmem Virtual kernel memory layout: vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB) fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB) DMA : 0xf4600000 - 0xffe00000 ( 184 MB) vmalloc : 0x90800000 - 0xf2000000 (1560 MB) lowmem : 0x80000000 - 0x90000000 ( 256 MB) modules : 0x7f000000 - 0x80000000 ( 16 MB) .init : 0x80008000 - 0x8002f000 ( 156 kB) .text : 0x8002f000 - 0x804a2bc4 (4559 kB) .data : 0x804a4000 - 0x804d4e40 ( 196 kB) .bss : 0x804d4e64 - 0x805159a0 ( 259 kB) SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 NR_IRQS:456 MVF GPIO hardware sched_clock: 32 bits at 66MHz, resolution 15ns, wraps every 65075ms Console: colour dummy device 80x30 Calibrating delay loop... 262.96 BogoMIPS (lpj=1314816) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok hw perfevents: enabled with ARMv7 Cortex-A5 PMU driver, 3 counters available NET: Registered protocol family 16 mcf_edma: Initialized successfully hw-breakpoint: Debug register access (0xee003e17) caused undefined instruction on CPU 0 hw-breakpoint: Debug register access (0xee004e52) caused undefined instruction on CPU 0 IMX usb wakeup probe. id=1 IMX usb wakeup probe. id=0 bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 SCSI subsystem initialized usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. Switching to clocksource pit NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) TCP reno registered UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) NET: Registered protocol family 1 RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. RPC: Registered udp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. Static Power Management for Freescale Vybrid PM driver module loaded JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. msgmni has been set to 497 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: Layer0 fb device registered successfully. fb1: fb device registered successfully. fb2: fb device registered successfully. fb3: fb device registered successfully. Serial: MVF driver imx-uart.1: ttymxc1 at MMIO 0x40028000 (irq = 94) is a IMX console [ttymxc1] enabled brd: module loaded FSL NFC MTD nand Driver 1.0 NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0xcc (Micron NAND 512MiB 3,3V 16-bit) 5 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device NAND Creating 5 MTD partitions on "NAND": 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "spare" 0x000000040000-0x000000080000 : "bootloader" 0x000000080000-0x0000000a0000 : "env" 0x0000000a0000-0x0000004a0000 : "kernel" 0x0000004a0000-0x000020000000 : "rootfs" FEC Ethernet Driver fec_enet_mii_bus: probed ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: irq 108, io base 0x400b4000 fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. ARC USBOTG Device Controller driver (1 August 2005) g_ether gadget: using random self ethernet address g_ether gadget: using random host ethernet address usb0: MAC ca:22:97:6f:20:5f usb0: HOST MAC de:0e:4d:7b:3c:e9 g_ether gadget: controller 'fsl-usb2-udc' not recognized; trying CDC Ethernet (ECM) g_ether gadget: Ethernet Gadget, version: Memorial Day 2008 g_ether gadget: g_ether ready fsl-usb2-udc: bind to driver g_ether mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0 snvs_rtc snvs_rtc.0: rtc core: registered snvs_rtc as rtc0 i2c /dev entries driver imx2-wdt imx2-wdt.0: IMX2+ Watchdog Timer enabled. timeout=60s (nowayout=0) sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman sdhci sdhci-esdhc-imx.1: no write-protect pin available! mmc0: SDHCI controller on platform [sdhci-esdhc-imx.1] using ADMA ALSA device list: No soundcards found. TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 17 VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 2 part 30 variant 5 rev 1 snvs_rtc snvs_rtc.0: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (0) Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p3... mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch. assuming write-enable. mmc0: new SDHC card at address aaaa mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SS08G 7.40 GiB mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 179:3. Freeing init memory: 156K System halted. <------------------------------ IT IS STUCKING HERE...
Phytec board is maintained by Timesys so I am assigning it for them.
Timesys don't track issues in the Yocto Project bugzilla as far as I know and haven't responded so I am closing this issue here as I don't think it will go anywhere. Please take it directly up with the BSP maintainers if there is still an issue.