New board extensions not supported by VSCode nRF extension?

[pcspets]

Hello

When following the guidline of a new way to extend boards, VSCode "Add Build Configuration" is blank. Am I doing something wrong or this is not yet supported by nRF VSCode extension?

Attached is a sample project with the following "board.yaml":

board:
  extend: nrf52840dk
  variants:
    - name: test
      qualifier: nrf52840

extended_board_test.zip

[Kazi Afroza Sultana]

Hello,

Did you select the board name correctly? Is it a custom board?

[pcspets]

Hi

Yes, I believe I select the board name correctly:

And when CMake runs, it states:

-- Board: nrf52840dk, qualifiers: nrf52840/test

And then after fails with the error message:

CMake Error at C:/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/cmake/modules/arch_v2.cmake:36 (message):
  ARCH not defined.  Check that BOARD=nrf52840dk, is selecting an appropriate
  SoC in Kconfig, SoC=, and that the SoC is selecting the correct
  architecture.

Try it with the attached sample project:

extended_board_test-compile-failure.zip

It is just an empty (with no modifications) extension for a nrf52840dk.

[Kazi Afroza Sultana]

Hello,

I talked to team and got the following feedback.

Board extends was added to the version 2024.12.55. User is using an old version.

You can try to update it to latest. It should work.

[pcspets]

Hi

These versions that I listed in this thread two months ago, it was before the fix. I definitely updated the plugins and tried with new versions.

To be sure, I tested it again.

I have the following versions now:
-/
nRF Connect for VS Code Extension Pack
v2024.9.5

nRF Connect for VS Code
v2025.1.127

nRF DeviceTree
v2024.12.15

nRF Kconfig
v2024.12.13

nRF Terminal
v2024.9.14

nRF Connect SDK
v2.9.0
/-

And my sample project still fails exatcly the same as described before.

[Kazi Afroza Sultana]

hello,

Do you still have the issue?

I have run your project on nRF52840 DK on NCS version 2.9.0. It built ok.

[pcspets]

Yes, I still have the issue.

Are you sure you selected "nrf52840dk/nrf52840/test" as your board target?