How to find Zephyr version with nRF Connect for VS Code Addin and how to see what Zephyr versions are supported and how to upgrade Zephyr

RE: How to find Zephyr version with nRF Connect for VS Code Addin and how to see what Zephyr versions are supported and how to upgrade Zephyr

lcj — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:55:55 GMT

It would be great to have a simple way to see it in the VSC interface.

RE: How to find Zephyr version with nRF Connect for VS Code Addin and how to see what Zephyr versions are supported and how to upgrade Zephyr

runsiv — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:04:38 GMT

I can unfortunately not give you any roadmap detail here on Devzone, for that you will need to contact your regional sales manager who can provide you with the information.

The Zephyr SDK will be missing the parts we are adding to our fork, so I don't think it will be able to build anything if you switch interswitch for the same project.

The feedback i got earlier today was that our latest build NCS 2.5 is "almost Zephyr 3.5" however due to differences we can't say it's Zephyr 3.5

Regards

Runar

RE: How to find Zephyr version with nRF Connect for VS Code Addin and how to see what Zephyr versions are supported and how to upgrade Zephyr

lcj — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:08:43 GMT

My thought was that I would change the toolchain and test and if it didn't work right or there were to many problems I would switch back. Is there any roadmap or target date? When I go for support in the Zephyr forum I get back responses to get up to the latest version. In this case it was around https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/build/version/index.html, where I was getting

fatal error: app_version.h: No such file or directory.

The documentation said:

To use the version information in application code, the version file must be included, then the fields can be freely used. The include file name is app_version.h (no path is needed)

RE: How to find Zephyr version with nRF Connect for VS Code Addin and how to see what Zephyr versions are supported and how to upgrade Zephyr

runsiv — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:59:09 GMT

I'm not sure if I follow. I would not recommend trying to change between NCS and Zephyr for the same product. If you want to develop for different products there is no problem with switching between our SDK and Zephyrs SDK as I know of. Our newest SDK release is almost Zephyr 3.5 however we don't always follow Zephyr release schedule so at time we might be a bit behind or maybe a bit ahead.

Regards
Runar

RE: How to find Zephyr version with nRF Connect for VS Code Addin and how to see what Zephyr versions are supported and how to upgrade Zephyr

lcj — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:42:28 GMT

So, if I want to swap out the Nordic Zephyr with Zephyr project version I can do so. Can I toggle back and forth easily after they are both installed? Is this a common practice, I don't want to be an outlier.

RE: How to find Zephyr version with nRF Connect for VS Code Addin and how to see what Zephyr versions are supported and how to upgrade Zephyr

runsiv — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:28:42 GMT

Hi Leo

1.You can find the matching between NCS release and Zephyr release in the release notes overview for each version of the SDK.

Update: As we are running a fork of Zephyr containing Nordic software, our SDK release will never be exactly the same as the zephyr releases.

2. If you would like to change NCS version, you can do it by installing a new SDK from within Vscode

3. See question 1

Regards

Runar