To understand NXP's Yocto ecosystem, we need to start with the FSL community BSP, comprising the meta-freescale layer with support for NXP's reference boards, and its companion, meta-freescale-3rdparty, with support for boards from other vendors, and its differences with the official NXP Yocto BSP releases that NXP offers for their reference designs.

There are some key differences between the community and NXP Yocto releases:

• NXP releases are developed internally by NXP without community involvement and are used for BSP validation on NXP reference boards.
• NXP releases go through an internal QA and validation test process, and they are maintained by NXP support.
• NXP releases for a specific platform reach a maturity point, after which they are no longer worked on. At this point, all the development work has been integrated into the community layer and the platforms are further maintained by the FSL BSP community.
• NXP Yocto releases are not Yocto compatible, while the community release is.

NXP's engineering works very closely with the FSL BSP community to make sure that all development in their official releases is integrated in the community layer in a reliable and quick manner.

The FSL BSP community is also very responsive and active, so problems can usually be worked on with them to benefit all parts.