diff --git a/poky/scripts/bblock b/poky/scripts/bblock
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0082059
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/scripts/bblock
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# bblock
+# lock/unlock task to latest signature
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 BayLibre, SAS
+# Author: Julien Stepahn <jstephan@baylibre.com>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+#
+
+import os
+import sys
+import logging
+
+scripts_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+lib_path = scripts_path + "/lib"
+sys.path = sys.path + [lib_path]
+
+import scriptpath
+
+scriptpath.add_bitbake_lib_path()
+
+import bb.tinfoil
+import bb.msg
+
+import argparse_oe
+
+myname = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
+logger = bb.msg.logger_create(myname)
+
+
+def getTaskSignatures(tinfoil, pn, tasks):
+    tinfoil.set_event_mask(
+        [
+            "bb.event.GetTaskSignatureResult",
+            "logging.LogRecord",
+            "bb.command.CommandCompleted",
+            "bb.command.CommandFailed",
+        ]
+    )
+    ret = tinfoil.run_command("getTaskSignatures", pn, tasks)
+    if ret:
+        while True:
+            event = tinfoil.wait_event(1)
+            if event:
+                if isinstance(event, bb.command.CommandCompleted):
+                    break
+                elif isinstance(event, bb.command.CommandFailed):
+                    logger.error(str(event))
+                    sys.exit(2)
+                elif isinstance(event, bb.event.GetTaskSignatureResult):
+                    sig = event.sig
+                elif isinstance(event, logging.LogRecord):
+                    logger.handle(event)
+    else:
+        logger.error("No result returned from getTaskSignatures command")
+        sys.exit(2)
+    return sig
+
+
+def parseRecipe(tinfoil, recipe):
+    try:
+        tinfoil.parse_recipes()
+        d = tinfoil.parse_recipe(recipe)
+    except Exception:
+        logger.error("Failed to get recipe info for: %s" % recipe)
+        sys.exit(1)
+    return d
+
+
+def bblockDump(lockfile):
+    try:
+        with open(lockfile, "r") as lockfile:
+            for line in lockfile:
+                print(line.strip())
+    except IOError:
+        return 1
+    return 0
+
+
+def bblockReset(lockfile, pns, package_archs, tasks):
+    if not pns:
+        logger.info("Unlocking all recipes")
+        try:
+            os.remove(lockfile)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            pass
+    else:
+        logger.info("Unlocking {pns}".format(pns=pns))
+        tmp_lockfile = lockfile + ".tmp"
+        with open(lockfile, "r") as infile, open(tmp_lockfile, "w") as outfile:
+            for line in infile:
+                if not (
+                    any(element in line for element in pns)
+                    and any(element in line for element in package_archs.split())
+                ):
+                    outfile.write(line)
+                else:
+                    if tasks and not any(element in line for element in tasks):
+                        outfile.write(line)
+        os.remove(lockfile)
+        os.rename(tmp_lockfile, lockfile)
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse_oe.ArgumentParser(description="Lock and unlock a recipe")
+    parser.add_argument("pn", nargs="*", help="Space separated list of recipe to lock")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-t",
+        "--tasks",
+        help="Comma separated list of tasks",
+        type=lambda s: [
+            task if task.startswith("do_") else "do_" + task for task in s.split(",")
+        ],
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-r",
+        "--reset",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Unlock pn recipes, or all recipes if pn is empty",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-d",
+        "--dump",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Dump generated bblock.conf file",
+    )
+
+    global_args, unparsed_args = parser.parse_known_args()
+
+    with bb.tinfoil.Tinfoil() as tinfoil:
+        tinfoil.prepare(config_only=True)
+
+        package_archs = tinfoil.config_data.getVar("PACKAGE_ARCHS")
+        builddir = tinfoil.config_data.getVar("TOPDIR")
+        lockfile = "{builddir}/conf/bblock.conf".format(builddir=builddir)
+
+        if global_args.dump:
+            bblockDump(lockfile)
+            return 0
+
+        if global_args.reset:
+            bblockReset(lockfile, global_args.pn, package_archs, global_args.tasks)
+            return 0
+
+        with open(lockfile, "a") as lockfile:
+            s = ""
+            if lockfile.tell() == 0:
+                s = "# Generated by bblock\n"
+                s += 'SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS_TASKSIG_CHECK = "info"\n'
+                s += 'SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS_TYPES += "${PACKAGE_ARCHS}"\n'
+                s += "\n"
+
+            for pn in global_args.pn:
+                d = parseRecipe(tinfoil, pn)
+                package_arch = d.getVar("PACKAGE_ARCH")
+                siggen_locked_sigs_package_arch = d.getVar(
+                    "SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS_{package_arch}".format(package_arch=package_arch)
+                )
+                sigs = getTaskSignatures(tinfoil, [pn], global_args.tasks)
+                for sig in sigs:
+                    new_entry = "{pn}:{taskname}:{sig}".format(
+                        pn=sig[0], taskname=sig[1], sig=sig[2]
+                    )
+                    if (
+                        siggen_locked_sigs_package_arch
+                        and not new_entry in siggen_locked_sigs_package_arch
+                    ) or not siggen_locked_sigs_package_arch:
+                        s += 'SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS_{package_arch} += "{new_entry}"\n'.format(
+                            package_arch=package_arch, new_entry=new_entry
+                        )
+            lockfile.write(s)
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        ret = main()
+    except Exception:
+        ret = 1
+        import traceback
+
+        traceback.print_exc()
+    sys.exit(ret)
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py
index 4873089..9cd50be 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/upgrade.py
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@
 def _check_git_config():
     def getconfig(name):
         try:
-            value = bb.process.run('git config --global %s' % name)[0].strip()
+            value = bb.process.run('git config %s' % name)[0].strip()
         except bb.process.ExecutionError as e:
             if e.exitcode == 1:
                 value = None
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py b/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
index 4675cc6..92468b2 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 import collections
 import setuptools.command.build_py
 import email
-import imp
+import importlib
 import glob
 import itertools
 import logging
@@ -561,7 +561,6 @@
         return deps
 
     def parse_pkgdata_for_python_packages(self):
-        suffixes = [t[0] for t in imp.get_suffixes()]
         pkgdata_dir = tinfoil.config_data.getVar('PKGDATA_DIR')
 
         ldata = tinfoil.config_data.createCopy()
@@ -585,7 +584,7 @@
                     continue
 
             for fn in files_info:
-                for suffix in suffixes:
+                for suffix in importlib.machinery.all_suffixes():
                     if fn.endswith(suffix):
                         break
                 else:
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks
index 22b4521..8089976 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 
 include common.wks.inc
 
-bootloader  --timeout=0  --append="rw oprofile.timer=1 rootfstype=ext4 "
+bootloader  --timeout=0  --append="rw oprofile.timer=1 rootfstype=ext4 console=tty console=ttyS0 "
 
diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/help.py b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/help.py
index 73e3380..163535e 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/wic/help.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/wic/help.py
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@
 TOPIC:
     overview  - Presents an overall overview of Wic
     plugins   - Presents an overview and API for Wic plugins
-    kickstart - Presents a Wic kicstart file reference
+    kickstart - Presents a Wic kickstart file reference
 
 
 Examples:
diff --git a/poky/scripts/oe-setup-layers b/poky/scripts/oe-setup-layers
index c8012fa..6d49688 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/oe-setup-layers
+++ b/poky/scripts/oe-setup-layers
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@
 import subprocess
 
 def _is_repo_git_repo(repodir):
-    git_dir = os.path.join(repodir, ".git")
-    if not os.access(git_dir, os.R_OK):
-        return False
     try:
-        return subprocess.check_output("git -C %s rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir" % git_dir, shell=True, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        curr_toplevel = subprocess.check_output("git -C %s rev-parse --show-toplevel" % repodir, shell=True, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        if curr_toplevel.strip().decode("utf-8") == repodir:
+            return True
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
-        return False
+        pass
+    return False
 
 def _is_repo_at_rev(repodir, rev):
     try:
diff --git a/poky/scripts/runqemu b/poky/scripts/runqemu
index 0668e12..6fca743 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/poky/scripts/runqemu
@@ -842,11 +842,11 @@
             if self.get('QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT'):
                 self.qemu_opt_script += ' ' + self.get('QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT').replace('@PORT@', port)
             else:
-                self.qemu_opt_script += ' -serial tcp:127.0.0.1:%s' % port
+                self.qemu_opt_script += ' -serial tcp:127.0.0.1:%s,nodelay=on' % port
 
             if len(ports) > 1:
                 for port in ports[1:]:
-                    self.qemu_opt_script += ' -serial tcp:127.0.0.1:%s' % port
+                    self.qemu_opt_script += ' -serial tcp:127.0.0.1:%s,nodelay=on' % port
 
     def check_and_set(self):
         """Check configs sanity and set when needed"""