I'm migrating our project with custom boards from NCS 2.6.1 to 2.7.0, and I'm having a number of issues in the vscode extension (v2024.9.87):
- The "Create a new board" option is creating hardware model 1 board start files, which is not useful when the toolchain and SDK versions don't support it anymore
- Without porting my custom boards to hwm2, they were not available as board targets in the VSCode build configuration dialog - even though the porting guide claims they are still supported
- After porting my boards to hwm2, they were still not available - the porting guide has no mention on how out-of-tree hwm2 boards can be added to the build
(also, the zephyr python conversion string created invalid Kconfig symbols, as it failed to replace dash characters to underscores) - After cross checking the zephyr and ncs example-application, I have created the zephyr/module.yml file in the project root with the below contents, which made the boards finally buildable - but only on the first try, coming back to it the next day (and after doing some git rebasing of the changes) it doesn't work again
# zephyr/module.yml: build: settings: board_root: . - Even when the build itself succeeded, the build configuration wasn't shown in the extension's Application view
At the same time, I'm successfully building with these boards with CI, so there's something definitely off with what VSCode is doing...
Attaching the generated support information:
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