how to patch my kernel with yocto?

[travisladuke]

I have some kernel and uboot patches for an imx53 board from another vendor. They have instructions based on LTIB, but I want to try with a yocto based environment.

I was tried to follow some documentation from yocto, but some of it is not applicable.

Can someone point me to some documentation or maybe help get me started? I'm not sure if I need to create a machine or layer, or how/where to make my own branch with repo.

[OtavioSalvador]

I strongly advice you to start a layer for your project; it makes your maintenance and development work much easier.

You then can include a board setting and use bbappend files to make the need changes on recipes.

This is how we do when customizing layers for our customers.

Regards,

[travisladuke]

Thanks. I made a new layer and it built.

I'm not sure where to put my patches now. The only manuals I can find involve using yocto-kernel which isn't applicable here.

[OtavioSalvador]

You can take a look how we do in meta-fsl-arm-extra. It is essentially the same thing you're doing.