Future of Partition Manager and Sysbuild

[vcbz]

Recently, I have been working on integrating mcuboot with the partition manager from the NCS sdk. In addition, for another project, I am using Zephyr upstream and using Sysbuild instead.

I read this post here Partition Manager and device tree partitions

Currently my workflow is to use partition manager when using NRF products and use sysbuild for other vendors, but it would be nice to have one solution.

Is there a roadmap or discussion for Zephyr upstream of a single solution that can be used for Zephyr upstream and NCS downstream?

[Hieu]

Hi vcbz,

Sysbuild support was introduced with NCS v2.7.0. Have you given it a try?

Regarding your question about our roadmap, we are unfortunately not at liberty to discuss it on DevZone.

Hieu

[vcbz]

Thanks for the info. I will definitely try it.

And as for the roadmap, I am most interested in the public discussion that might take place around sysbuild and partition manager in the Github issues/pull request of the Zephyr project.

[Hieu]

To my understanding, sysbuild usage in NCS is supposed to be the same as in Zephyr; and the implementation of it is based on Zephyr sysbuild, with some necessary modifications.

The discussion on such modifications is however internal, but there might be some knowledgeable people on Zephyr Discord.

[vcbz]

Yes, I have seen some specific sysbuild KConfig for NCS.

I hope that in the future I can use sysbuild both for NCS and Zephyr upstream without having to add anything else.

The interest of the discussion originates from the fact that its good to keep up to date for any upcoming news about sysbuild and partition manager. I will have a look on discord as well.

Thanks