diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 40796aa..54a587f 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # Path prefixes
 export base_prefix = ""
 export prefix = "/usr"
-export exec_prefix = "/usr"
+export exec_prefix = "${prefix}"
 
 # Base paths
 export base_bindir = "${base_prefix}/bin"
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 TARGET_LD_ARCH = "${TUNE_LDARGS}"
 TARGET_AS_ARCH = "${TUNE_ASARGS}"
 
-SDK_ARCH = "${BUILD_ARCH}"
+SDKMACHINE ??= "x86_64"
 SDK_OS = "${BUILD_OS}"
 SDK_VENDOR = "-oesdk"
 SDK_SYS = "${SDK_ARCH}${SDK_VENDOR}${@['-' + d.getVar('SDK_OS', True), ''][d.getVar('SDK_OS', True) == ('' or 'custom')]}"
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION_${PN}-doc ?= "${DESCRIPTION}  \
 This package contains documentation."
 
-LICENSE = "INVALID"
+LICENSE ??= "INVALID"
 MAINTAINER = "OE-Core Developers <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>"
 HOMEPAGE = ""
 
@@ -284,7 +284,8 @@
             ${sysconfdir} ${sharedstatedir} ${localstatedir} \
             ${base_bindir}/* ${base_sbindir}/* \
             ${base_libdir}/*${SOLIBS} \
-            ${base_prefix}/lib/udev/rules.d ${prefix}/lib/udev/rules.d \
+            ${base_prefix}/lib/udev ${prefix}/lib/udev \
+            ${base_libdir}/udev ${libdir}/udev \
             ${datadir}/${BPN} ${libdir}/${BPN}/* \
             ${datadir}/pixmaps ${datadir}/applications \
             ${datadir}/idl ${datadir}/omf ${datadir}/sounds \
@@ -403,8 +404,14 @@
 # Kernel info.
 ##################################################################
 
-OLDEST_KERNEL = "2.6.32"
+OLDEST_KERNEL = "3.2.0"
 OLDEST_KERNEL_aarch64 = "3.14"
+OLDEST_KERNEL_nios2 = "3.19"
+
+# Define where the kernel headers are installed on the target as well as where
+# they are staged.
+KERNEL_SRC_PATH = "/usr/src/kernel"
+
 STAGING_KERNEL_DIR = "${TMPDIR}/work-shared/${MACHINE}/kernel-source"
 STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR = "${TMPDIR}/work-shared/${MACHINE}/kernel-build-artifacts"
 
@@ -444,10 +451,10 @@
 # Disable ccache explicitly if CCACHE is null since gcc may be a symlink
 # of ccache some distributions (e.g., Fedora 17).
 export CCACHE_DISABLE ??= "${@[0,1][d.getVar('CCACHE', True) == '']}"
-# Assign CCACHE_DIR a default value to fix a bug of ccache 3.1.7,
-# since it would always create CCACHE_DIR/.ccache even if
-# CCACHE_DISABLE = 1.
-export CCACHE_DIR ??= "${@os.getenv('HOME')}"
+# ccache < 3.1.10 will create CCACHE_DIR on startup even if disabled, and
+# autogen sets HOME=/dev/null so in certain situations builds can fail.
+# Explicitly export CCACHE_DIR until we can assume ccache >3.1.10 on the host.
+export CCACHE_DIR ??= "${@os.getenv('HOME')}/.ccache"
 
 TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS = " --sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}"
 
@@ -465,6 +472,7 @@
 export OBJDUMP = "${HOST_PREFIX}objdump"
 export STRINGS = "${HOST_PREFIX}strings"
 export NM = "${HOST_PREFIX}nm"
+export READELF = "${HOST_PREFIX}readelf"
 PYTHON = "${@sys.executable}"
 
 export BUILD_CC = "${CCACHE}${BUILD_PREFIX}gcc ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"
@@ -482,7 +490,7 @@
 export MAKE = "make"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = ""
 EXTRA_OECONF = ""
-export LC_ALL = "C"
+export LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8"
 
 ##################################################################
 # Patch handling.
@@ -495,10 +503,9 @@
 ##################################################################
 
 export BUILD_CPPFLAGS = "-isystem${STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE}"
-BUILDSDK_CPPFLAGS = "-isystem${STAGING_INCDIR}"
+BUILDSDK_CPPFLAGS = ""
 export CPPFLAGS = "${TARGET_CPPFLAGS}"
 export TARGET_CPPFLAGS = ""
-#export TARGET_CPPFLAGS = "-isystem${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${includedir}"
 
 export BUILD_CFLAGS = "${BUILD_CPPFLAGS} ${BUILD_OPTIMIZATION}"
 BUILDSDK_CFLAGS = "${BUILDSDK_CPPFLAGS} ${BUILD_OPTIMIZATION}"
@@ -517,12 +524,7 @@
                         -Wl,-rpath,${STAGING_BASE_LIBDIR_NATIVE} \
                         -Wl,-O1"
 
-BUILDSDK_LDFLAGS = "-L${STAGING_LIBDIR} \
-                    -Wl,-rpath-link,${STAGING_LIBDIR} \
-                    -Wl,-rpath,${libdir} -Wl,-O1 \
-                    -L${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${base_libdir} \
-                    -Wl,-rpath-link,${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${base_libdir} \
-                    -Wl,-rpath,${base_libdir} -Wl,-O1"
+BUILDSDK_LDFLAGS = "-Wl,-O1"
 
 LINKER_HASH_STYLE ??= "gnu"
 # mips does not support GNU hash style therefore we override
@@ -532,6 +534,11 @@
 LINKER_HASH_STYLE_mips64el = "sysv"
 LINKER_HASH_STYLE_mips64n32 = "sysv"
 LINKER_HASH_STYLE_mips64eln32 = "sysv"
+LINKER_HASH_STYLE_mipsisa32r6 = "sysv"
+LINKER_HASH_STYLE_mipsisa32r6el = "sysv"
+LINKER_HASH_STYLE_mipsisa64r6 = "sysv"
+LINKER_HASH_STYLE_mipsisa64r6el = "sysv"
+
 TARGET_LINK_HASH_STYLE ?= "${@['-Wl,--hash-style=gnu',''][d.getVar('LINKER_HASH_STYLE', True) != 'gnu']}"
 
 export LDFLAGS = "${TARGET_LDFLAGS}"
@@ -549,11 +556,11 @@
 ##################################################################
 # Optimization flags.
 ##################################################################
-DEBUG_FLAGS ?= "-g -feliminate-unused-debug-types \
-                -fdebug-prefix-map=${WORKDIR}=/usr/src/debug/${PN}/${EXTENDPE}${PV}-${PR} \
-                -fdebug-prefix-map=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}= \
-                -fdebug-prefix-map=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}= \
+DEBUG_PREFIX_MAP ?= "-fdebug-prefix-map=${WORKDIR}=/usr/src/debug/${PN}/${EXTENDPE}${PV}-${PR} \
+                     -fdebug-prefix-map=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}= \
+                     -fdebug-prefix-map=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}= \
 "
+DEBUG_FLAGS ?= "-g -feliminate-unused-debug-types ${DEBUG_PREFIX_MAP}"
 
 # Disabled until the option works properly -feliminate-dwarf2-dups
 FULL_OPTIMIZATION = "-O2 -pipe ${DEBUG_FLAGS}"
@@ -572,12 +579,13 @@
 # Download locations and utilities.
 ##################################################################
 
-APACHE_MIRROR = "http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/"
+APACHE_MIRROR = "http://archive.apache.org/dist"
 DEBIAN_MIRROR = "ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool"
 GENTOO_MIRROR = "http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles"
 GNOME_GIT = "git://git.gnome.org"
 GNOME_MIRROR = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources"
 GNU_MIRROR = "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu"
+GNUPG_MIRROR = "https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt"
 GPE_MIRROR = "http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source"
 KERNELORG_MIRROR = "http://kernel.org/pub"
 SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net"
@@ -595,6 +603,7 @@
     GNOME_GIT \
     GNOME_MIRROR \
     GNU_MIRROR \
+    GNUPG_MIRROR \
     GPE_MIRROR \
     KERNELORG_MIRROR \
     SAVANNAH_GNU_MIRROR \
@@ -713,6 +722,7 @@
 DL_DIR ?= "${TOPDIR}/downloads"
 SSTATE_DIR ?= "${TOPDIR}/sstate-cache"
 IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "tar.gz"
+IMAGE_FSTYPES_DEBUGFS ?= "${IMAGE_FSTYPES}"
 
 INITRAMFS_FSTYPES ?= "cpio.gz"
 # The maximum size in Kbytes for the generated initramfs image size.
@@ -798,7 +808,7 @@
 
 # Setup our default hash policy
 BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER ?= "OEBasicHash"
-BB_HASHBASE_WHITELIST ?= "TMPDIR FILE PATH PWD BB_TASKHASH BBPATH DL_DIR \
+BB_HASHBASE_WHITELIST ?= "TMPDIR FILE PATH PWD BB_TASKHASH BBPATH BBSERVER DL_DIR \
     SSTATE_DIR THISDIR FILESEXTRAPATHS FILE_DIRNAME HOME LOGNAME SHELL TERM \
     USER FILESPATH STAGING_DIR_HOST STAGING_DIR_TARGET COREBASE PRSERV_HOST \
     PRSERV_DUMPDIR PRSERV_DUMPFILE PRSERV_LOCKDOWN PARALLEL_MAKE \
@@ -809,12 +819,14 @@
     SSH_AUTH_SOCK PSEUDO_BUILD BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE DISABLE_SANITY_CHECKS \
     PARALLEL_MAKE BB_NUMBER_THREADS BB_ORIGENV BB_INVALIDCONF BBINCLUDED \
     GIT_PROXY_COMMAND ALL_PROXY all_proxy NO_PROXY no_proxy FTP_PROXY ftp_proxy \
-    HTTP_PROXY http_proxy HTTPS_PROXY https_proxy SOCKS5_USER SOCKS5_PASSWD"
+    HTTP_PROXY http_proxy HTTPS_PROXY https_proxy SOCKS5_USER SOCKS5_PASSWD \
+    BB_SETSCENE_ENFORCE"
 BB_SIGNATURE_EXCLUDE_FLAGS ?= "doc deps depends \
     lockfiles type vardepsexclude vardeps vardepvalue vardepvalueexclude \
     file-checksums python func task export unexport noexec nostamp dirs cleandirs \
     sstate-lockfile-shared prefuncs postfuncs export_func deptask rdeptask \
-    recrdeptask nodeprrecs stamp-extra-info sstate-outputdirs filename lineno"
+    recrdeptask nodeprrecs stamp-extra-info sstate-outputdirs filename lineno \
+    progress"
 
 MLPREFIX ??= ""
 MULTILIB_VARIANTS ??= ""
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index fac4deb..f7ed943 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 IMAGE_FEATURES ?= ""
 
 WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 ?= ""
-LGPLv2_WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 ?= "libidn"
+LGPLv2_WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 ?= ""
 
 COMMERCIAL_AUDIO_PLUGINS ?= ""
 # COMMERCIAL_AUDIO_PLUGINS ?= "gst-plugins-ugly-mad gst-plugins-ugly-mpegaudioparse"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-versions.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-versions.inc
index a04ea71..cc8c533 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-versions.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-versions.inc
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
 # Default preferred versions
 #
 
-# Force the python versions in one place
-PYTHON_BASEVERSION ?= "2.7"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_python ?= "2.7.11"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_python-native ?= "2.7.11"
-
 # Force the older version of liberation-fonts until we fix the fontforge issue
 PREFERRED_VERSION_liberation-fonts ?= "1.04"
 
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc
index c8f9395..10efb09 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-alsa-utils-alsaconf = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-alsa-utils-scripts = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-atk = "Fedora=atk OpenSuSE=atk"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-augeas = "Ubuntu=libaugeas0 Debian=libaugeas0"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-avahi-ui = "Ubuntu=avahi-discover Debian=avahi-discover"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-babeltrace = "OSPDT"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-bdwgc = "OSPDT"
@@ -46,7 +45,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-console-tools = "Debian=console-tools Ubuntu=console-tools"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-core-image-base = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-core-image-clutter = "OE-Core"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-core-image-directfb = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-core-image-full-cmdline = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-core-image-kernel-dev = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-core-image-lsb = "OE-Core"
@@ -75,7 +73,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-dbus-test = "Fedora=dbus Ubuntu=dbus"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-dbus-wait = "OpenedHand"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-depmodwrapper-cross = "OE-Core"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-directfb-examples = "Debian=directfb Fedora=directfb"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-distcc = "Debian=distcc Fedora=distcc"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-distcc-config = "OpenedHand"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-dmxproto = "Meego=xorg-x11-proto-dmxproto Ubuntu=x11proto-dmx Debian=x11proto-dmx"
@@ -134,7 +131,7 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gstreamer1.0-rtsp-server = "Ubuntu=gstreamer0.10-rtsp Fedora=gstreamer-rtsp"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gtk+ = "Meego=gtk2 Fedora=gtk2 OpenSuSE=gtk2 Ubuntu=gtk+2.0 Mandriva=gtk+2.0 Debian=gtk+2.0"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gtk+3 = "Ubuntu=gtk+3.0 Debian=gtk+3.0 Fedora=gtk3"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gtk-doc-stub = "Fedora=gtk-doc Ubuntu=gtk-doc"
+DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gtk-doc = "Fedora=gtk-doc Ubuntu=gtk-doc"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gtk-engines = "Fedora=gtk2-engines OpenSuSE=gtk2-engines Ubuntu=gtk2-engines Mandriva=gtk-engines2 Debian=gtk2-engines"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gtk-sato-engine = "OpenedHand"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-gtk-icon-utils-native = "OSPDT"
@@ -216,7 +213,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-libxi = "Ubuntu=libxi Fedora=libXi"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-libxkbcommon = "Fedora=libxkbcommon Debian=libxkbcommon"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-libxscrnsaver = "Fedora=libXScrnSaver Ubuntu=libxss1 Mandriva=libxscrnsaver"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-libxsettings-client = "Debian=libxsettings-client0 Ubuntu=libxsettings-client0 Mandriva=libXsettings-client0"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-libxxf86misc = "Mandriva=libxxf86misc Fedora=libXxf86misc"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-linux-dummy = "Intel"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-linux-firmware = "Fedora=linux-firmware Ubuntu=linux-firmware"
@@ -281,8 +277,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-opkg-nogpg = "OSPDT upstream=git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-opkg-utils = "OSPDT upstream=git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-oprofile = "Debian=oprofile Fedora=oprofile"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-oprofileui = "Fedora=oprofileui Ubuntu=oprofile-gui Debian=oprofile-gui"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-oprofileui-server = "Fedora=oprofileui Ubuntu=oprofile-gui Debian=oprofile-gui"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-os-release = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-base = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core = "OE-Core"
@@ -290,7 +284,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core-buildessential = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core-clutter = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core-device-devel = "OE-Core"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core-directfb = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core-eclipse-debug = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core-full-cmdline = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-packagegroup-core-lsb = "OE-Core"
@@ -318,7 +311,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-perf = "OSPDT"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-piglit = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-pkgconfig = "Ubuntu=pkg-config Fedora=pkgconfig"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-pointercal = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-pointercal-xinput = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-pong-clock = "OpenedHand"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-portmap = "Debian=rpcbind Fedora=rpcbind"
@@ -338,12 +330,10 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-dbus = "Ubuntu=python-dbus Debian=python-dbus Mandriva=python-dbus"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-distribute = "Opensuse=python-setuptools Fedora=python-setuptools"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-git = "Debian=python-git Fedora=GitPython"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-imaging = "Mandriva=python-imaging Debian=python-imaging"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-mako = "Fedora=python-mako Opensuse=python-Mako"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-pycairo = "Meego=pycairo Fedora=pycairo Ubuntu=pycairo Debian=pycairo"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-pycurl = "Debian=python-pycurl Ubuntu=python-pycurl"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-pygobject = "Meego=pygobject2 Fedora=pygobject2 Ubuntu=pygobject Debian=pygobject"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-pyrex = "Mandriva=python-pyrex Ubuntu=python-pyrex"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-scons = "Fedora=scons OpenSuSE=scons Ubuntu=scons Mandriva=scons Debian=scons"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-setuptools = "Mandriva=python-setup OpenSuSE=python-setup-git"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-python-smartpm = "Debian=smart OpenSuSE=smart"
@@ -388,7 +378,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-tiny-init = "OSPDT"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-trace-cmd = "Mandriva=trace-cmd Ubuntu=trace-cmd"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-tremor = "OSPDT upstream=http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-tslib = "Debian=tslib Ubuntu=tslib"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-ttf-bitstream-vera = "Debian=ttf-bitstream-vera Ubuntu=ttf-bitstream-vera"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-tzcode = "OSPDT"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-u-boot-fw-utils = "Ubuntu=u-boot-tools Debian=u-boot-tools"
@@ -457,7 +446,6 @@
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-xserver-xf86-lite = "Fedora=xorg-x11-server Ubuntu=xserver-xorg"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-xserver-xorg = "Fedora=xorg-x11-server Ubuntu=xserver-xorg"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-xset = "Fedora=xorg-x11-server-utils Ubuntu=x11-xserver-utils Debian=x11-xserver-utils Opensuse=xorg-x11"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-xtscal = "OSPDT upstream=http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-xuser-account = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-xvideo-tests = "OpenedHand"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-xvinfo = "Fedora=xorg-x11-utils Ubuntu=x11-utils"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fc1157..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# NOTE: THIS FILE IS DEPRECATED. Please add new entries to the recipes themselves.
-#
-# package_regex.inc - This file contains data that tracks
-# upstream project associated with a given recipe. This list is needed
-# for recipes that version information can not be automagically discovered.
-# As we automate this checking, this file will slowly be reduced.
-#"
-# This data is used by the package reporting system (packages.yoctoproject.org)
-#"
-# The format is as a bitbake variable override for each recipe
-#"
-#       UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI_pn-<recipe name> = "recipe_url"
-#	 - This is the url used by the package checking system to
-#	   get the latest version of the package
-#       UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX_pn-<recipe name> = "package_regex"
-#	 - This is the regex the package checking system uses to
-#	   parse the page found at UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI_pn-<recipe name>
-#	UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX_pn-<recipe name> = "git_tag_regex"
-#	 - When source code is fetched from git, git tags are used to
-#	   determine the upstream release version. This regex can be used
-#	   to filter only relevant tags.
-#
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
index ff5f34e..eca835e 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@
 # -O0 which then results in a compiler warning.
 lcl_maybe_fortify = "${@base_conditional('DEBUG_BUILD','1','','-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2',d)}"
 
-SECURITY_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong -pie -fpie ${lcl_maybe_fortify}"
-SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong ${lcl_maybe_fortify}"
+# Error on use of format strings that represent possible security problems
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT ?= "-Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security"
+
+SECURITY_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong -pie -fpie ${lcl_maybe_fortify} ${SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT}"
+SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong ${lcl_maybe_fortify} ${SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT}"
 
 SECURITY_LDFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now"
 SECURITY_X_LDFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-z,relro"
@@ -26,7 +29,6 @@
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-lttng-tools_arm = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-aspell = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-beecrypt = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-blktrace = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-coreutils = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-cups = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-db = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
@@ -37,10 +39,9 @@
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-enchant = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-expect = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-flac = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-flex = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gcc = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gcc-runtime = ""
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gcc-sanitizers = ""
+SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gcc-sanitizers = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gdb = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gmp = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gnutls = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
@@ -50,8 +51,6 @@
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-grub-efi-x86-native = ""
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-grub-efi-i586-native = ""
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-grub-efi-x86-64-native = ""
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gst-plugins-bad = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gst-plugins-gl = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-good = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-harfbuzz = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
@@ -59,28 +58,30 @@
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-iptables = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libaio = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libcap = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libgcc = ""
+SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libgcc = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libid3tag = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libnewt = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
+SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libnewt-python = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libglu = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libpcap = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libpcre = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libproxy = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-lttng-ust = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-mesa = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-mesa-gl = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-openssl = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-opensp = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-ppp = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python-imaging = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python-pycurl = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python-smartpm = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python-numpy = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
+SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python3-numpy = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
+SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python3-pycairo = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-python3 = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 # Revert RPM to using internally supported values
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-rpm = "${lcl_maybe_fortify} -fstack-protector"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-syslinux = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
+SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-slang = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
+SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-source-highlight = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-tcl = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-tiff = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-uclibc = ""
@@ -88,18 +89,22 @@
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-valgrind = ""
 SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-zlib = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
 
-# These 2 have text relco errors with the pie options enabled
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-ltp = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
-SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-pulseaudio = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
+# Recipes which fail to compile when elevating -Wformat-security to an error
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-busybox = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-console-tools = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-cmake = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-expect = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-gcc = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-gettext = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-kexec-tools = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT_pn-oh-puzzles = ""
 
 TARGET_CFLAGS_append_class-target = " ${SECURITY_CFLAGS}"
 TARGET_LDFLAGS_append_class-target = " ${SECURITY_LDFLAGS}"
 
 SECURITY_LDFLAGS_remove_pn-gcc-runtime = "-fstack-protector-strong"
-SECURITY_LDFLAGS_remove_pn-gcc-sanitizers = "-fstack-protector-strong"
 SECURITY_LDFLAGS_remove_pn-glibc = "-fstack-protector-strong"
 SECURITY_LDFLAGS_remove_pn-glibc-initial = "-fstack-protector-strong"
-SECURITY_LDFLAGS_remove_pn-libgcc = "-fstack-protector-strong"
 SECURITY_LDFLAGS_remove_pn-uclibc = "-fstack-protector-strong"
 SECURITY_LDFLAGS_remove_pn-uclibc-initial = "-fstack-protector-strong"
 SECURITY_LDFLAGS_pn-xf86-video-fbdev = "${SECURITY_X_LDFLAGS}"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-uclibc.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-uclibc.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index 14c3cdb..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-uclibc.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#
-# uclibc specific configuration
-#
-
-LIBCEXTENSION = "-uclibc"
-
-# Add uclibc overrides to the overrides.
-LIBCOVERRIDE = ":libc-uclibc"
-OVERRIDES .= "${LIBCOVERRIDE}"
-
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libc ?= "uclibc"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libiconv ?= "libiconv"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libintl ?= "gettext"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/nativesdk-libintl ?= "nativesdk-glibc"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/nativesdk-libiconv ?= "nativesdk-glibc"
-
-USE_NLS ?= "no"
-
-CXXFLAGS += "-fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
-
-IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
-
-LIBC_DEPENDENCIES = "\
-    uclibc \
-    uclibc-dbg \
-    uclibc-dev \
-    uclibc-thread-db \
-    "
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
index c412420..ca3c5ec 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}compilerlibs = "gcc-runtime"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_gdb = "gdb"
 
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}binutils-crosssdk ?= "binutils-crosssdk-${SDK_ARCH}"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}gcc-initial = "gcc-crosssdk-initial-${SDK_ARCH}"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}gcc = "gcc-crosssdk-${SDK_ARCH}"
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}g++ = "gcc-crosssdk-${SDK_ARCH}"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}binutils-crosssdk ?= "binutils-crosssdk-${SDK_SYS}"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}gcc-initial = "gcc-crosssdk-initial-${SDK_SYS}"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}gcc = "gcc-crosssdk-${SDK_SYS}"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}g++ = "gcc-crosssdk-${SDK_SYS}"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${SDK_PREFIX}compilerlibs = "nativesdk-gcc-runtime"
 
 # Default libc config
@@ -22,19 +22,19 @@
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/nativesdk-${SDK_PREFIX}libc-initial ?= "nativesdk-glibc-initial"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/gettext ??= "gettext"
 
-GCCVERSION ?= "5.3%"
+GCCVERSION ?= "6.2%"
 SDKGCCVERSION ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
-BINUVERSION ?= "2.26%"
-GDBVERSION ?= "7.10%"
-GLIBCVERSION ?= "2.23"
+BINUVERSION ?= "2.27%"
+GDBVERSION ?= "7.11%"
+GLIBCVERSION ?= "2.24"
 UCLIBCVERSION ?= "1.0%"
-LINUXLIBCVERSION ?= "4.4"
+LINUXLIBCVERSION ?= "4.8%"
 
 PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-cross-${TARGET_ARCH} ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-cross-initial-${TARGET_ARCH} ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-crosssdk-${SDK_ARCH} ?= "${SDKGCCVERSION}"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-crosssdk-initial-${SDK_ARCH} ?= "${SDKGCCVERSION}"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-crosssdk-${SDK_SYS} ?= "${SDKGCCVERSION}"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-crosssdk-initial-${SDK_SYS} ?= "${SDKGCCVERSION}"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH} ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-runtime ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-sanitizers ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc-initial           ?= "${UCLIBCVERSION}"
 # don't use version earlier than 1.4 for gzip-native, as it's necessary for
 # some packages using an archive format incompatible with earlier gzip
-PREFERRED_VERSION_gzip-native ?= "1.6"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_gzip-native ?= "1.8"
 
 # Setup suitable toolchain flags
 require conf/distro/include/as-needed.inc
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/world-broken.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/world-broken.inc
index a5f6371..d4bdddf 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/world-broken.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/world-broken.inc
@@ -47,3 +47,10 @@
 
 # error: 'RTLD_NEXT' was not declared in this scope
 EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD_pn-gcc-sanitizers_libc-musl = "1"
+
+# gcc fails to build when libuwind is staged before building gcc since
+# it then finds the unwind.h header from libunwind and not from libgcc
+# and on arm specially they are different since libgcc defines some functions
+# as macros which are functions in libunwind and it fails during linking
+# libbacktrace/backtrace.c:76: undefined reference to `_Unwind_GetIP'
+EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD_pn-libunwind_libc-musl_arm = "1"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/yocto-uninative.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/yocto-uninative.inc
index 85e613a..975edec 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/yocto-uninative.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/distro/include/yocto-uninative.inc
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
 # to the distro running on the build machine.
 #
 
-UNINATIVE_URL = "http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/uninative/0.95/"
-UNINATIVE_CHECKSUM[i686] ?= "5f27d7e0f4dd2ed80a7ff6a0d88af107b08e00765b31ed3aa180cc5ce15b0811"
-UNINATIVE_CHECKSUM[x86_64] ?= "26d46c61ad88cc245e31c88549717c0092a838d111b93ec169d88b08cc027581"
+UNINATIVE_URL ?= "http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/uninative/1.4/"
+UNINATIVE_CHECKSUM[i686] ?= "b4bc60511ce479736808273ffa043df4ed2a225407dd7ca150ae6220d9ce76d5"
+UNINATIVE_CHECKSUM[x86_64] ?= "101ff8f2580c193488db9e76f9646fb6ed38b65fb76f403acb0e2178ce7127ca"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index dcc324c..06527cb 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 do_kernel_checkout[doc] = "Checks out source/meta branches for a linux-yocto style kernel"
 do_kernel_configcheck[doc] = "Validates the kernel configuration for a linux-yocto style kernel"
 do_kernel_configme[doc] = "Assembles the kernel configuration for a linux-yocto style kernel"
-do_kernel_link_vmlinux[doc] = "Creates a symbolic link in arch/$arch/boot for vmlinux kernel images"
+do_kernel_link_images[doc] = "Creates a symbolic link in arch/$arch/boot for vmlinux and vmlinuz kernel images"
 do_listtasks[doc] = "Lists all defined tasks for a target"
 do_menuconfig[doc] = "Runs 'make menuconfig' for the kernel"
 do_package[doc] = "Analyzes the content of the holding area and splits it into subsets based on available packages and files"
@@ -349,7 +349,6 @@
 RCONFLICTS[doc] = "The list of packages that conflict with another package. Note that the package will not be installed if the conflicting packages are not first removed."
 RDEPENDS[doc] = "Lists a package's runtime dependencies (i.e. other packages) that must be installed for the package to be built. They must be the names of other packages as listed in the PACKAGES variable, not recipe names (PN)."
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES[doc] = "When a recipe inherits the distro_features_check class, this variable identifies distribution features that must exist in the current configuration in order for the OpenEmbedded build system to build the recipe."
-RM_OLD_IMAGE[doc] = "Reclaims disk space by removing previously built versions of the same image from the images directory pointed to by the DEPLOY_DIR variable."
 RM_WORK_EXCLUDE[doc] = "With rm_work enabled, this variable specifies a list of packages whose work directories should not be removed."
 ROOTFS[doc] = "Indicates a filesystem image to include as the root filesystem."
 ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND[doc] = "Added by classes to run post processing commands once the OpenEmbedded build system has created the root filesystem."
@@ -452,8 +451,12 @@
 UBOOT_TARGET[doc] = "Specifies the target used for building U-Boot."
 USE_DEVFS[doc] = "When building images, specifies to populate or not /dev. This variable defaults to '1' (leave directory empty, surely because devtmpfs do the job). Set it to '0' to use makedevs (or consider using a custom file with IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES)."
 USER_CLASSES[doc] = "List of additional classes to use when building images that enable extra features."
+USERADD_ERROR_DYNAMIC[doc] = "If set to 'error', forces the OpenEmbedded build system to produce an error if the user identification (uid) and group identification (gid) values are not defined in any of the files listed in USERADD_UID_TABLES and USERADD_GID_TABLES. If set to 'warn', a warning will be issued instead."
+USERADD_GID_TABLES[doc] = "Specifies a password file to use for obtaining static group identification (gid) values when the OpenEmbedded build system adds a group to the system during package installation."
 USERADD_PACKAGES[doc] = "When a recipe inherits the useradd class, this variable specifies the individual packages within the recipe that require users and/or groups to be added."
 USERADD_PARAM[doc] = "When a recipe inherits the useradd class, this variable specifies for a package what parameters should be passed to the useradd command if you wish to add a user to the system when the package is installed."
+USERADD_UID_TABLES[doc] = "Specifies a password file to use for obtaining static user identification (uid) values when the OpenEmbedded build system adds a user to the system during package installation."
+USERADDEXTENSION[doc] = "When set to 'useradd-staticids', causes the OpenEmbedded build system to base all user and group additions on files listed in USERADD_UID_TABLES and USERADD_GID_TABLES."
 
 #W
 
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/layer.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/layer.conf
index 10b98f5..24b4df0 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/layer.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/layer.conf
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 # This should only be incremented on significant changes that will
 # cause compatibility issues with other layers
-LAYERVERSION_core = "8"
+LAYERVERSION_core = "9"
 
 BBLAYERS_LAYERINDEX_NAME_core = "openembedded-core"
 
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
   connman-conf \
   formfactor \
   xserver-xf86-config \
-  pointercal \
   pointercal-xinput \
   base-files \
   keymaps \
@@ -47,6 +46,7 @@
   ppp-dialin->ppp \
   resolvconf->bash \
   docbook-xsl-stylesheets->perl \
+  ca-certificates->openssl \
   initramfs-framework->${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} \
   initramfs-framework->systemd \
   initramfs-framework->eudev \
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i586.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i586.conf
index baacce7..41e5e15 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i586.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i586.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 SDK_ARCH = "i586"
 SDK_CC_ARCH = "-march=i586"
+ABIEXTENSION_class-nativesdk = ""
 
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i686.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i686.conf
index ffdb461..fe40697 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i686.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/i686.conf
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 SDK_ARCH = "i686"
 SDK_CC_ARCH = "-march=i686"
+ABIEXTENSION_class-nativesdk = ""
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/x86_64.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/x86_64.conf
index 812d67c..61439b4 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/x86_64.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine-sdk/x86_64.conf
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 SDK_ARCH = "x86_64"
+ABIEXTENSION_class-nativesdk = ""
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv7ve.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv7ve.inc
index 79e1ef6..e13156c 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv7ve.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv7ve.inc
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
 TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'armv7ve', ' -march=armv7ve', '', d)}"
 MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'armv7ve', 'armv7ve:', '' ,d)}"
 
-require conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv6.inc
-require conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-neon.inc
+require conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv7a.inc
 
 # Little Endian base configs
 AVAILTUNES += "armv7ve armv7vet armv7ve-vfpv3d16 armv7vet-vfpv3d16 armv7ve-vfpv3 armv7vet-vfpv3 armv7ve-neon armv7vet-neon armv7ve-neon-vfpv4 armv7vet-neon-vfpv4"
@@ -30,8 +29,8 @@
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet-neon       = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet} neon"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7ve-neon-vfpv4  = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7ve-neon}  vfpv4"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet-neon-vfpv4 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet-neon} vfpv4"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ve             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6}  armv7ve armv7ve-vfp"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vet            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6t} armv7ve armv7ve-vfp armv7vet2-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ve             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7a}  armv7ve armv7ve-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vet            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7at} armv7ve armv7ve-vfp armv7vet2-vfp"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ve-vfpv3d16    = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ve}  armv7ve-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vet-vfpv3d16   = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vet} armv7ve-vfpv3d16 armv7vet2-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ve-vfpv3       = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ve-vfpv3d16}  armv7ve-vfpv3"
@@ -63,8 +62,8 @@
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vethf-neon       = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet-neon}       callconvention-hard"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vehf-neon-vfpv4  = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7ve-neon-vfpv4}  callconvention-hard"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vethf-neon-vfpv4 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet-neon-vfpv4} callconvention-hard"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehf             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6hf}  armv7vehf-vfp"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethf            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6thf} armv7vehf-vfp armv7vet2hf-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehf             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ahf}  armv7vehf-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethf            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7athf} armv7vehf-vfp armv7vet2hf-vfp"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehf-vfpv3d16    = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehf}  armv7vehf-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethf-vfpv3d16   = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethf} armv7vehf-vfpv3d16 armv7vet2hf-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehf-vfpv3       = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehf-vfpv3d16}  armv7vehf-vfpv3"
@@ -96,8 +95,8 @@
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vetb-neon       = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet-neon}       bigendian"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7veb-neon-vfpv4  = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7ve-neon-vfpv4}  bigendian"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vetb-neon-vfpv4 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vet-neon-vfpv4} bigendian"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7veb             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6b}  armv7veb-vfp"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vetb            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6tb} armv7veb-vfp armv7vet2b-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7veb             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ab}  armv7veb-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vetb            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7atb} armv7veb-vfp armv7vet2b-vfp"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7veb-vfpv3d16    = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7veb}  armv7veb-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vetb-vfpv3d16   = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vetb} armv7veb-vfpv3d16 armv7vet2b-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7veb-vfpv3       = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7veb-vfpv3d16}  armv7veb-vfpv3"
@@ -129,8 +128,8 @@
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vethfb-neon       = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vethf-neon}       bigendian"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vehfb-neon-vfpv4  = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vehf-neon-vfpv4}  bigendian"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vethfb-neon-vfpv4 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7vethf-neon-vfpv4} bigendian"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehfb             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6hfb}  armv7vehfb-vfp"
-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethfb            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv6thfb} armv7vehfb-vfp armv7vet2hfb-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehfb             = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7ahfb}  armv7vehfb-vfp"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethfb            = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7athfb} armv7vehfb-vfp armv7vet2hfb-vfp"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehfb-vfpv3d16    = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehfb}  armv7vehfb-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethfb-vfpv3d16   = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vethfb} armv7vehfb-vfpv3d16 armv7vet2hfb-vfpv3d16"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehfb-vfpv3       = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7vehfb-vfpv3d16}  armv7vehfb-vfpv3"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-neon.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-neon.inc
index 50d9175..b34af8e 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-neon.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-neon.inc
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'neon', ' neon', '', d)}"
 
 TUNEVALID[vfpv3d16] = "Enable Vector Floating Point Version 3 with 16 registers (vfpv3-d16) unit."
-TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'vfpv3d16', ' vfpv3d16', '', d)}"
+TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'vfpv3d16', ' vfpv3-d16', '', d)}"
 
 TUNEVALID[vfpv3] = "Enable Vector Floating Point Version 3 with 32 registers (vfpv3) unit."
 TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'vfpv3', ' vfpv3', '' , d)}"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-vfp.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-vfp.inc
index 4247255..9ef31e7 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-vfp.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-vfp.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'vfp', ' vfp', '', d)}"
 
 TUNE_CCARGS  .= "${@ (' -mfpu=%s ' % d.getVar('TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU', True).split()[-1]) if (d.getVar('TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU', True) != '') else ''}"
-ARMPKGSFX_FPU = "${@ ('-%s'        % d.getVar('TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU', True).split()[-1]) if (d.getVar('TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU', True) != '') else ''}"
+ARMPKGSFX_FPU = "${@ ('-%s'        % d.getVar('TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU', True).split()[-1].replace('vfpv3-d16', 'vfpv3d16')) if (d.getVar('TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU', True) != '') else ''}"
 
 TUNEVALID[callconvention-hard] = "Enable EABI hard float call convention, requires VFP."
 TUNE_CCARGS_MFLOAT = "${@ bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'callconvention-hard', 'hard', 'softfp', d) if (d.getVar('TUNE_CCARGS_MFPU', True) != '') else '' }"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/README b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/README
index c375f31..62fa156 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/README
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/README
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2016/09/30 - Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com>
+  - Add Release 6 support
+
 2012/03/30 - Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
   - Initial Version
 
@@ -6,9 +9,14 @@
  *) Hardware/Software Floating Point
  *) o32, n32, n64 ABI
 
+Release 6 of the ISA is a major revision and doesn't build up on previous
+releases of the ISA.
+
+For more details about tuples, check https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples
+
 TUNE_ARCH, the GNU canonical arch, is defined as:
 
-mips${MIPSPKGSFX_BYTE}${MIPSPKGSFX_ENDIAN}
+"mips${MIPSPKGSFX_32R6}${MIPSPKGSFX_64R6}${MIPSPKGSFX_BYTE}${MIPSPKGSFX_R6}${MIPSPKGSFX_ENDIAN}"
 
 The package arch is defined in such a way to generated a standard naming
 scheme.  The scheme is: <mips variant>[-nf][-n32]
@@ -34,3 +42,12 @@
 MIPSPKGSFX_ABI - This is used to specify an alternative ABI when the previous
 values are not enough to distringuish the package.  "-n32" is added when
 building for N32 ABI.
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_R6 - This is used to specify the presence of release 6.
+"r6" is added in the tuple for release 6 of the isa.
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_64R6 - This is used to specify "isa" in the tuple.
+Release 6 onwards we use "mipsisa64" instead of just "mips64".
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_32R6 -  This is used to specify "isa32" in the tuple.
+Release 6 onwards we use "mipsisa32" instead of just "mips".
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/arch-mips.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/arch-mips.inc
index 89d17e7..6069ca1 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/arch-mips.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/arch-mips.inc
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 ABIEXTENSION .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'n32', 'n32', '' ,d)}"
 TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'n32', ' -mabi=n32', '', d)}"
 
+# user mode qemu doesn't support mips64 n32: "Invalid ELF image for this architecture"
+MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED_append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'n32', 'qemu-usermode', '', d)}"
+
 TUNEVALID[n64] = "MIPS64 n64 ABI"
 TUNECONFLICTS[n64] = "o32 n32"
 TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'n64', ' -mabi=64', '', d)}"
@@ -29,14 +32,22 @@
 TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'fpu-hard', ' -mhard-float', ' -msoft-float', d)}"
 TARGET_FPU = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'fpu-hard', '', 'soft', d)}"
 
+# MIPS r6 ABI
+TUNEVALID[r6] = "Use r6"
+TUNEVALID[mipsisa64r6] = "Use 64r6"
+TUNEVALID[mipsisa32r6] = "Use 32r6"
+
 # Package naming
 MIPSPKGSFX_ENDIAN = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'bigendian', '', 'el', d)}"
 MIPSPKGSFX_BYTE = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'n64' , '64', '', d)}"
 MIPSPKGSFX_BYTE .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'n32' , '64', '', d)}"
 MIPSPKGSFX_FPU = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'fpu-hard' , '', '-nf', d)}"
 MIPSPKGSFX_ABI = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'n32', '-n32', '', d)}"
+MIPSPKGSFX_R6 = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'r6', 'r6', '', d)}"
+MIPSPKGSFX_64R6 = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mipsisa64r6', 'isa', '', d)}"
+MIPSPKGSFX_32R6 = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mipsisa32r6', 'isa32', '', d)}"
 
-TUNE_ARCH = "mips${MIPSPKGSFX_BYTE}${MIPSPKGSFX_ENDIAN}"
+TUNE_ARCH = "mips${MIPSPKGSFX_32R6}${MIPSPKGSFX_64R6}${MIPSPKGSFX_BYTE}${MIPSPKGSFX_R6}${MIPSPKGSFX_ENDIAN}"
 TUNE_PKGARCH = "${MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-${DEFAULTTUNE}}${MIPSPKGSFX_FPU}${MIPSPKGSFX_ABI}"
 
 # Base tunes
@@ -100,3 +111,29 @@
 BASE_LIB_tune-mips64el-nf = "lib64"
 MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64el-nf = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64el-nf = "mips64el-nf"
+
+# MIPS 64 + o32
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64-o32 mips64el-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64-o32 = "o32 bigendian fpu-hard"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64-o32 = "mips mips64-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el-o32 = "o32 fpu-hard"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64el-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64el-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64el-o32 = "mipsel mips64el-o32 mips64el-o32"
+
+# MIPS 64 o32 and Soft Float
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64-nf-o32 mips64el-nf-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64-nf-o32 = "o32 bigendian"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64-nf-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64-nf-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64-nf-o32 = "mips-nf mips64-nf-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el-nf-o32 = "o32"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64el-nf-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64el-nf-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64el-nf-o32 = "mipsel-nf mips64el-nf-o32"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/feature-mips-mips16e.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/feature-mips-mips16e.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05011de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/feature-mips-mips16e.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+TUNEVALID[mips16e] = "Build target packages with MIPS16e ASE instructions"
+MIPS_MIPS16E_OPT = "${@['mno-mips16', 'mips16'][d.getVar('MIPS_INSTRUCTION_SET', True) == 'mips16e']}"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mips16e', ' -${MIPS_MIPS16E_OPT}', '', d)}"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_MIPS16E .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mips16e', '-m16', '', d) if d.getVar('MIPS_MIPS16E_OPT', True) == 'mips16' else ''}"
+
+# Whether to compile with code to allow interworking between the two
+# instruction sets. This allows mips16e code to be executed on a primarily
+# mips32/64 system and vice versa. It is strongly recommended that DISTROs not
+# turn this off - the actual cost is very small.
+TUNEVALID[no-interlink-compressed] = "Disable mixing of standard and MIPS16e code"
+MIPS16_TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'no-interlink-compressed', ' -mno-interlink-compressed', ' -minterlink-compressed', d)}"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mips16e', ' ${MIPS16_TUNE_CCARGS}', '', d)}"
+OVERRIDES .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mips16e', ':mips16e', '', d)}"
+
+# show status (if compiling in MIPS16e mode)
+BUILDCFG_VARS += "${@['', 'MIPS_INSTRUCTION_SET'][d.getVar('MIPS_INSTRUCTION_SET', True) == 'mips16e']}"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/tune-mips-24k.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/tune-mips-24k.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..828acd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/mips/tune-mips-24k.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+DEFAULTTUNE ?= "mips32r2-24kc"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_MIPS16E ??= ""
+
+require conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r2.inc
+require conf/machine/include/mips/feature-mips-mips16e.inc
+
+
+TUNEVALID[24kc] = "Enable MIPS 24Kc processor optimizations"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "24kc", " -mtune=24kc", "", d)}"
+TUNEVALID[24kec] = "Enable MIPS 24KEc processor optimizations, including DSP"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "24kec", " -mtune=24kec -mdsp", "", d)}"
+
+
+AVAILTUNES += "mips32r2-24kc   mips32r2-24kec   mips32r2-24kec-m16"
+AVAILTUNES += "mips32r2el-24kc mips32r2el-24kec mips32r2el-24kec-m16"
+
+# big endian: kc, kc+dsp=kec, kc+dsp+mips16e=kec-m16
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2-24kc = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2-nf} 24kc"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2-24kec = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2-nf} 24kec"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2-24kec-m16 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2-24kec} mips16e"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2-24kc = "mips32r2-24kc"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2-24kc = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2-nf} mips32r2-24kc-nf"
+QEMU_EXTRAOPTIONS_mips32r2-24kc-nf = " -cpu 24Kc"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2-24kec = "mips32r2-24kec"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2-24kec = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2-24kc} mips32r2-24kec-nf"
+QEMU_EXTRAOPTIONS_mips32r2-24kec-nf = " -cpu 24KEc"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2-24kec-m16 = "mips32r2-24kec${MIPSPKGSFX_MIPS16E}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2-24kec-m16 = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2-24kec} mips32r2-24kec-m16-nf"
+QEMU_EXTRAOPTIONS_mips32r2-24kec-m16-nf = " -cpu 24KEc"
+
+
+# little endian: kc, kc+dsp=kec, kc+dsp+mips16e=kec-m16
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el-24kc = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el-nf} 24kc"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el-24kec = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el-nf} 24kec"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el-24kec-m16 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el-24kec} mips16e"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2el-24kc = "mips32r2el-24kc"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el-24kc = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el-nf} mips32r2el-24kc-nf"
+QEMU_EXTRAOPTIONS_mips32r2el-24kc-nf = " -cpu 24Kc"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2el-24kec = "mips32r2el-24kec"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el-24kec = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el-24kc} mips32r2el-24kec-nf"
+QEMU_EXTRAOPTIONS_mips32r2el-24kec-nf = " -cpu 24KEc"
+
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2el-24kec-m16 = "mips32r2el-24kec${MIPSPKGSFX_MIPS16E}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el-24kec-m16 = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el-24kec} mips32r2el-24kec-m16-nf"
+QEMU_EXTRAOPTIONS_mips32r2el-24kec-m16-nf = " -cpu 24KEc"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
index 49419b6..f751c6b 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'm64', ' -m64', '', d)}"
 TUNE_ARCH .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', [ 'm64' ], 'powerpc64', '', d)}"
 
+# user mode qemu doesn't support ppc64
+MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED_append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'm64', 'qemu-usermode', '', d)}"
+
 AVAILTUNES += "powerpc64"
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-powerpc64 = "m64 fpu-hard"
 BASE_LIB_tune-powerpc64 = "lib64"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
index f44dbe6..2bc4dc2 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
@@ -29,3 +29,5 @@
 KERNEL_FEATURES_append_pn-linux-yocto = " features/nfsd/nfsd-enable.scc"
 
 MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "rng-tools"
+
+IMAGE_CLASSES += "qemuboot"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c60cf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# For runqemu
+IMAGE_CLASSES += "qemuboot"
+QB_MEM = "-m 256"
+QB_MACHINE = "-machine malta"
+QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "console=ttyS0 console=tty"
+# Add the 'virtio-rng-pci' device otherwise the guest may run out of entropy
+QB_OPT_APPEND = "-vga cirrus -show-cursor -usb -usbdevice tablet -device virtio-rng-pci"
+QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-${TUNE_ARCH}"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-x86.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-x86.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06ac983
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/qemuboot-x86.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# For runqemu
+IMAGE_CLASSES += "qemuboot"
+QB_SYSTEM_NAME_x86 = "qemu-system-i386"
+QB_CPU_x86 = "-cpu qemu32"
+QB_CPU_KVM_x86 = "-cpu kvm32"
+
+QB_SYSTEM_NAME_x86-64 = "qemu-system-x86_64"
+QB_CPU_x86-64 = "-cpu core2duo"
+QB_CPU_KVM_x86-64 = "-cpu kvm64"
+
+QB_AUDIO_DRV = "alsa"
+QB_AUDIO_OPT = "-soundhw ac97,es1370"
+QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "vga=0 uvesafb.mode_option=640x480-32 oprofile.timer=1 uvesafb.task_timeout=-1"
+# Add the 'virtio-rng-pci' device otherwise the guest may run out of entropy
+QB_OPT_APPEND = "-vga vmware -show-cursor -usb -usbdevice tablet -device virtio-rng-pci"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r2.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r2.inc
index 0e95ec8..5e398cb 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r2.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r2.inc
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 TUNECONFLICTS[mips32r2] = "n64 n32"
 TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mips32r2', ' -march=mips32r2', '', d)}"
 
+# hard float
 AVAILTUNES += "mips32r2 mips32r2el"
 
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips} mips32r2"
@@ -15,3 +16,14 @@
 TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsel} mips32r2"
 MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2el = "mips32r2el"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el = "mipsel mips32el mips32r2el"
+
+# soft float
+AVAILTUNES += "mips32r2-nf mips32r2el-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2-nf = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips-nf} mips32r2"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2-nf = "mips32r2"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2-nf = "mips-nf mips32-nf mips32r2-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips32r2el-nf = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsel-nf} mips32r2"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips32r2el-nf = "mips32r2el"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips32r2el-nf = "mipsel-nf mips32el-nf mips32r2el-nf"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r6.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r6.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4721319
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r6.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+DEFAULTTUNE ?= "mipsisa32r6el"
+
+require conf/machine/include/mips/arch-mips.inc
+
+TUNEVALID[mipsisa32r6] = "Enable mipsisa32r6 specific processor optimizations"
+TUNECONFLICTS[mipsisa32r6] = "n64 n32"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mipsisa32r6', ' -march=mips32r6', '', d)}"
+
+# Base Tunes
+AVAILTUNES += "mipsisa32r6 mipsisa32r6el"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa32r6 = "bigendian mipsisa32r6 fpu-hard r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa32r6 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa32r6 = "mipsisa32r6"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa32r6el = "fpu-hard mipsisa32r6 r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa32r6el = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa32r6el = "mipsisa32r6el"
+
+# Soft Float
+AVAILTUNES += "mipsisa32r6-nf mipsisa32r6el-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa32r6-nf = "bigendian mipsisa32r6 r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa32r6-nf = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa32r6-nf = "mipsisa32r6-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa32r6el-nf = "mipsisa32r6 r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa32r6el-nf = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa32r6el-nf = "mipsisa32r6el-nf"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips64r2.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips64r2.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75d7535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips64r2.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+DEFAULTTUNE ?= "mips64r2"
+
+require conf/machine/include/tune-mips64.inc
+
+TUNEVALID[mips64r2] = "Enable mips64r2 specific processor optimizations"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mips64r2', ' -march=mips64r2', '', d)}"
+
+# Base tunes
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64r2 mips64r2el"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2 = "lib64"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2 = "mips64r2"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2 = "mips64 mips64r2"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2el = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2el = "lib64"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2el = "mips64r2el"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2el = "mips64el mips64r2el"
+
+# MIPS 64r2 Soft Float
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64r2-nf mips64r2el-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2-nf = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64-nf} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2-nf = "lib64"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2-nf = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2-nf = "mips64-nf mips64r2-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2el-nf = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el-nf} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2el-nf = "lib64"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2el-nf = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2el-nf = "mips64el-nf mips64r2el-nf"
+
+# MIPS 64r2 n32
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64r2-n32 mips64r2el-n32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2-n32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64-n32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2-n32 = "lib32"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2-n32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2-n32 = "mips64-n32 mips64r2-n32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2el-n32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el-n32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2el-n32 = "lib32"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2el-n32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2el-n32 = "mips64el-n32 mips64r2el-n32"
+
+# MIPS 64r2 n32 and Soft Float
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64r2-nf-n32 mips64r2el-nf-n32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2-nf-n32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64-nf-n32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2-nf-n32 = "lib32"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2-nf-n32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2-nf-n32 = "mips64-nf-n32 mips64r2-nf-n32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2el-nf-n32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el-nf-n32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2el-nf-n32 = "lib32"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2el-nf-n32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2el-nf-n32 = "mips64el-nf-n32 mips64r2el-nf-n32"
+
+# MIPS 64r2 o32
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64r2-o32 mips64r2el-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2-o32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64-o32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2-o32 = "mips mips64-o32 mips64r2-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2el-o32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el-o32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2el-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2el-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2el-o32 = "mipsel mips64el-o32 mips64r2el-o32"
+
+# MIPS 64r2 o32 and Soft Float
+AVAILTUNES += "mips64r2-nf-o32 mips64r2el-nf-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2-nf-o32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64-nf-o32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2-nf-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2-nf-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2-nf-o32 = "mips-nf mips64r2-nf-o32"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64r2el-nf-o32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mips64el-nf-o32} mips64r2"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mips64r2el-nf-o32 = "lib"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mips64r2el-nf-o32 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mips64r2el-nf-o32 = "mipsel-nf mips64r2el-nf-o32"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips64r6.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips64r6.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f0ad564
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-mips64r6.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+DEFAULTTUNE ?= "mipsisa64r6el"
+
+require conf/machine/include/mips/arch-mips.inc
+
+TUNEVALID[mipsisa64r6] = "Enable mipsisa64r6 specific processor optimizations"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'mipsisa64r6', ' -march=mips64r6', '', d)}"
+
+# Base Tunes
+AVAILTUNES += "mipsisa64r6 mipsisa64r6el"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa64r6 = "bigendian fpu-hard n64 mipsisa64r6 r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa64r6 = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mipsisa64r6 = "lib64"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa64r6 = "mipsisa64r6"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa64r6el = "fpu-hard r6 n64 mipsisa64r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa64r6el = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mipsisa64r6el = "lib64"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa64r6el = "mipsisa64r6el"
+
+# Soft Float
+AVAILTUNES += "mipsisa64r6-nf mipsisa64r6el-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa64r6-nf = "bigendian r6 n64 mipsisa64r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa64r6-nf = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mipsisa64r6-nf = "lib64"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa64r6-nf = "mipsisa64r6"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-mipsisa64r6el-nf = "r6 n64 mipsisa64r6"
+MIPSPKGSFX_VARIANT_tune-mipsisa64r6el-nf = "${TUNE_ARCH}"
+BASE_LIB_tune-mipsisa64r6el-nf = "lib64"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-mipsisa64r6el-nf = "mipsisa64r6el-nf"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce500mc.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce500mc.inc
index a1ca9be..bc26a0f 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce500mc.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce500mc.inc
@@ -12,3 +12,6 @@
 
 # glibc configure options to get e500mc specific library (for sqrt)
 GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF += "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'ppce500mc', '-with-cpu=e500mc', '', d)}"
+
+# pass -mcpu=e500mc for ppce500mc kernel cross compile
+TARGET_CC_KERNEL_ARCH = "-mcpu=e500mc"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce5500.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce5500.inc
index ace2614..cebb244 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce5500.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce5500.inc
@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@
 
 # glibc configure options to get e5500 specific library (for sqrt)
 GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF += "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'e5500', '--with-cpu=e5500', '', d)}"
+
+# QEMU usermode fails with invalid instruction error (YOCTO: #10304)
+MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED_append = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'e5500', ' qemu-usermode', '', d)}"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce6500.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce6500.inc
index da1e864..5db7e76 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce6500.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-ppce6500.inc
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@
 # glibc configure options to get e6500 specific library
 GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF_powerpc64 += "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'e6500', '--with-cpu=e6500', '', d)}"
 GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF_powerpc += "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'e6500', '--with-cpu=e6500', '', d)}"
+
+# QEMU usermode fails with invalid instruction error (YOCTO: #10304)
+MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED_append = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'e6500', ' qemu-usermode', '', d)}"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/x86-base.inc b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/x86-base.inc
index 5663145..479e89e 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/x86-base.inc
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/include/x86-base.inc
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # kernel-related variables
 #
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ??= "linux-yocto"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.4%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.8%"
 
 #
 # XSERVER subcomponents, used to build the XSERVER variable
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf
index cdad03f..17402ef 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf
@@ -10,3 +10,11 @@
 
 SERIAL_CONSOLES = "115200;ttyAMA0 115200;ttyAMA1"
 
+# For runqemu
+QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-arm"
+QB_MACHINE = "-machine versatilepb"
+QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty"
+# Add the 'virtio-rng-pci' device otherwise the guest may run out of entropy
+QB_OPT_APPEND = "-show-cursor -usb -usbdevice tablet -device virtio-rng-pci"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ??= "4.8%"
+QB_DTB = "${@base_version_less_or_equal('PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto', '4.7', '', 'zImage-versatile-pb.dtb', d)}"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
index f59fb15..d075062 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
@@ -8,3 +8,17 @@
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "Image"
 
 SERIAL_CONSOLES = "38400;ttyAMA0 38400;hvc0"
+
+# For runqemu
+QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-aarch64"
+QB_MEM = "-m 512"
+QB_MACHINE = "-machine virt"
+QB_CPU = "-cpu cortex-a57"
+QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "console=ttyAMA0,38400"
+# Add the 'virtio-rng-pci' device otherwise the guest may run out of entropy
+QB_OPT_APPEND = "-show-cursor -device virtio-rng-pci"
+QB_TAP_OPT = "-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=@TAP@,script=no,downscript=no -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0,mac=@MAC@"
+QB_SLIRP_OPT = "-netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0"
+QB_ROOTFS_OPT = "-drive id=disk0,file=@ROOTFS@,if=none,format=raw -device virtio-blk-device,drive=disk0"
+QB_SERIAL_OPT = "-device virtio-serial-device -chardev null,id=virtcon -device virtconsole,chardev=virtcon"
+QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT = " -device virtio-serial-device -chardev socket,id=virtcon,port=@PORT@,host=127.0.0.1 -device virtconsole,chardev=virtcon"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf
index fbf8137..3182ea1 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 require conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
 require conf/machine/include/tune-mips32r2.inc
+require conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
 
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux"
 KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux.bin"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips64.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips64.conf
index 8c3f1fe..9529f4c 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips64.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemumips64.conf
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 require conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
 require conf/machine/include/tune-mips64.inc
+require conf/machine/include/qemuboot-mips.inc
 
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux"
 KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux.bin"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuppc.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuppc.conf
index bf0038d..8703c20 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuppc.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuppc.conf
@@ -11,3 +11,11 @@
 
 SERIAL_CONSOLES = "115200;ttyS0 115200;ttyS1"
 
+# For runqemu
+QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-ppc"
+QB_MACHINE = "-machine mac99"
+QB_CPU = "-cpu G4"
+QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "console=tty console=ttyS0"
+# Add the 'virtio-rng-pci' device otherwise the guest may run out of entropy
+QB_OPT_APPEND = "-show-cursor -usb -usbdevice tablet -device virtio-rng-pci"
+QB_TAP_OPT = "-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=@TAP@,script=no,downscript=no -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=@MAC@"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf
index 489194a..b191ddd 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 require conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
 DEFAULTTUNE ?= "core2-64"
 require conf/machine/include/tune-core2.inc
+require conf/machine/include/qemuboot-x86.inc
 
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "bzImage"
 
@@ -22,7 +23,10 @@
            xf86-input-evdev \
            xf86-video-cirrus \
            xf86-video-fbdev \
-           xf86-video-vmware"
+           xf86-video-vmware \
+           xf86-video-modesetting \
+           xserver-xorg-module-libint10 \
+           "
 
 MACHINE_FEATURES += "x86"
 
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf
index 3cc8091..8555fd6 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 require conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
 require conf/machine/include/tune-i586.inc
+require conf/machine/include/qemuboot-x86.inc
 
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "bzImage"
 
@@ -21,7 +22,10 @@
            xf86-input-evdev \
            xf86-video-cirrus \
            xf86-video-fbdev \
-           xf86-video-vmware"
+           xf86-video-vmware \
+           xf86-video-modesetting \
+           xserver-xorg-module-libint10 \
+           "
 
 MACHINE_FEATURES += "x86"
 
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/multilib.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/multilib.conf
index 50303fb..1403a03 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/multilib.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/multilib.conf
@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@
 # inside the multilib sysroot.  Fix this by explicitly adding the MACHINE's
 # architecture-independent pkgconfig location to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH .= ":${STAGING_DIR}/${MACHINE}${datadir}/pkgconfig"
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH[vardepsexclude] = "MACHINE"
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH[vardepsexclude] = "MACHINE datadir STAGING_DIR"
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH[vardepvalueexclude] = ":${STAGING_DIR}/${MACHINE}${datadir}/pkgconfig"
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/sanity.conf b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/sanity.conf
index 7021bf9..dcf60b7 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/sanity.conf
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/sanity.conf
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # See sanity.bbclass
 #
 # Expert users can confirm their sanity with "touch conf/sanity.conf"
-BB_MIN_VERSION = "1.29.1"
+BB_MIN_VERSION = "1.31.2"
 
 SANITY_ABIFILE = "${TMPDIR}/abi_version"
 
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/blacklist b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/blacklist
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fdb8f2..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/blacklist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-libneon27-gnutls
-openjdk-6-jre-headless
-openjdk-6-jre-lib
-openjdk-6-jre
-libdbus-1-3
-libneon27-gnutls
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/filters b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/filters
deleted file mode 100644
index a447f70..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/filters
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-/usr/local/lib/python2.6
-/usr/lib/python2.6
-/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6
-/usr/lib/perl/5.10
-# which is part of the debianutils packages, but we don't want to put the entire
-# debianutils package in the whitelist.
-/usr/bin/which
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/whitelist b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/whitelist
deleted file mode 100644
index f0fe963..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/Ubuntu-10.04.1-64/whitelist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-base-files
-dash
-libacl1
-libattr1
-libbz2-1.0
-libc6
-libc-bin
-libglib2.0-0
-libncurses5
-libselinux1
-libsqlite3-0
-libssl0.9.8
-mime-support
-perl-base
-python2.6
-python2.6-minimal
-python-apport
-python-gst0.10
-python-imaging
-python-minimal
-python-support
-python-zope.interface
-zlib1g
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/blacklist b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/blacklist
deleted file mode 100644
index 396bcb4..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/blacklist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-udev
-dkpg
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/filters b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/filters
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b10fcb..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/filters
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-/tmp
-/etc/localtime
-/etc/ld.so.cache
-/etc/ld.so.conf
-/etc/passwd
-/etc/group
-/etc/nsswitch.conf
-/proc
-/dev/null
-/dev/tty
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/whitelist b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/whitelist
deleted file mode 100644
index 48ec2af..0000000
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/swabber/generic/whitelist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-bash
-bzip2
-ccache
-coreutils
-cpp
-file
-findutils
-gawk
-grep
-hostname
-make
-sed
-tar
-util-linux
-zlib1g
diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/toasterconf.json b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/toasterconf.json
index c27880e..796125b 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/toasterconf.json
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/conf/toasterconf.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
             "name": "Local OpenEmbedded",
             "sourcetype": "local",
             "apiurl": "../../",
-            "branches": ["HEAD", "master", "jethro", "krogoth"],
+            "branches": ["HEAD", "master"],
             "layers": [
                 {
                     "name": "openembedded-core",
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@
             "name": "OpenEmbedded",
             "sourcetype": "layerindex",
             "apiurl": "http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/api/",
-            "branches": ["master", "jethro", "krogoth"]
+            "branches": ["master"]
         },
         {
             "name": "Imported layers",
             "sourcetype": "imported",
             "apiurl": "",
-            "branches": ["master", "jethro", "krogoth", "HEAD"]
+            "branches": ["master", "HEAD"]
 
         }
     ],
@@ -45,18 +45,6 @@
             "dirpath": ""
         },
         {
-            "name": "jethro",
-            "giturl": "git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake",
-            "branch": "1.28",
-            "dirpath": ""
-        },
-        {
-            "name": "krogoth",
-            "giturl": "git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake",
-            "branch": "1.30",
-            "dirpath": ""
-        },
-        {
             "name": "HEAD",
             "giturl": "git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake",
             "branch": "HEAD",
@@ -77,24 +65,6 @@
             "helptext": "Toaster will run your builds using the tip of the <a href=\"http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/log/\">OpenEmbedded master</a> branch, where active development takes place. This is not a stable branch, so your builds might not work as expected."
         },
         {
-            "name": "jethro",
-            "description": "OpenEmbedded Jethro",
-            "bitbake": "jethro",
-            "branch": "jethro",
-            "defaultlayers": [ "openembedded-core" ],
-            "layersourcepriority": { "Imported layers": 99, "Local OpenEmbedded" : 10, "OpenEmbedded" :  0 },
-            "helptext": "Toaster will run your builds with the tip of the <a href=\"http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/log/?h=jethro\">OpenEmbedded \"Jethro\"</a> branch"
-        },
-        {
-            "name": "krogoth",
-            "description": "OpenEmbedded Krogoth",
-            "bitbake": "krogoth",
-            "branch": "krogoth",
-            "defaultlayers": [ "openembedded-core" ],
-            "layersourcepriority": { "Imported layers": 99, "Local OpenEmbedded" : 10, "OpenEmbedded" :  0 },
-            "helptext": "Toaster will run your builds with the tip of the <a href=\"http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/log/?h=krogoth\">OpenEmbedded \"Krogoth\"</a> branch"
-        },
-        {
             "name": "local",
             "description": "Local OpenEmbedded",
             "bitbake": "HEAD",