diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index ec860fd588160f2f5808f9956a058d644e3b5e10..5e0c4b625239e383e1798de6fbfbdbe57b82dd86 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ Prerequisites:
 ==============
 
 This layer depends on:
-    Yocto distro (master)
+    Yocto distro (kirkstone)
         git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
-    Python layer (meta-openembedded/meta-python)
+    Python layer (meta-openembedded/meta-python) (kirkstone)
         git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
 
 Modify local conf by adding:
diff --git a/meta-zephyr-bsp/conf/machine/qemu-nios2.conf b/meta-zephyr-bsp/conf/machine/qemu-nios2.conf
index de203205863ae9b99b9f748c99541884c127e765..c41f505878e02c0f2a62f1de3de4eca6d1360a45 100644
--- a/meta-zephyr-bsp/conf/machine/qemu-nios2.conf
+++ b/meta-zephyr-bsp/conf/machine/qemu-nios2.conf
@@ -14,3 +14,5 @@ QB_OPT_APPEND = "-nographic"
 QB_CPU = "-cpu nios2"
 
 ARCH:qemu-nios2 = "nios2"
+
+TCLIBC = "glibc"
diff --git a/meta-zephyr-core/classes/zephyrtest.bbclass b/meta-zephyr-core/classes/zephyrtest.bbclass
index 248fd15c82d45904f06ff58317ae9e753f2e79d1..aa48e6c44582608ea25c7e2abcf81c027727891f 100644
--- a/meta-zephyr-core/classes/zephyrtest.bbclass
+++ b/meta-zephyr-core/classes/zephyrtest.bbclass
@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ python testdata_clean() {
         os.remove(fname)
 }
 
-addtask do_testdata_write before do_build after do_deploy
+addtask do_testdata_write before do_testimage after do_deploy
diff --git a/meta-zephyr-core/conf/distro/zephyr.conf b/meta-zephyr-core/conf/distro/zephyr.conf
index 6ecd4211ed04d7c1eb44293f13eba2e9ff375b55..bdf18215fe5f2cc6072d353e5364de58096ca0b6 100644
--- a/meta-zephyr-core/conf/distro/zephyr.conf
+++ b/meta-zephyr-core/conf/distro/zephyr.conf
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DISTRO_VERSION = "1.0"
 
 TARGET_VENDOR = "-yocto"
 
-TCLIBC = "newlib"
+TCLIBC ?= "newlib"
 
 TEST_TARGET = "QemuTargetZephyr"
 TEST_SUITES = "zephyr"
diff --git a/meta-zephyr-core/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.7.1.inc b/meta-zephyr-core/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.7.2.inc
similarity index 97%
rename from meta-zephyr-core/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.7.1.inc
rename to meta-zephyr-core/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.7.2.inc
index 4b38a75b38875a2b485603f17722699c09fc97c6..16e4251a6a4bb62ada725d09ac1385fe261eb103 100644
--- a/meta-zephyr-core/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.7.1.inc
+++ b/meta-zephyr-core/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.7.2.inc
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRC_URI += " \
 #      echo SRCREV_$x = \"$rev\"'
 #
 
-SRCREV_default = "e4da3e528088a34a9989f5a50e7ed3149d57de92"
+SRCREV_default = "6dd320f791c4da49190b30f9134f776d85bc5836"
 SRCREV_canopennode = "f167efe85c8c7de886f1bc47f9173cfb8a346bb5"
 SRCREV_civetweb = "094aeb41bb93e9199d24d665ee43e9e05d6d7b1c"
 SRCREV_cmsis = "b0612c97c1401feeb4160add6462c3627fe90fc7"
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@ SRCREV_TraceRecorder = "36c577727642457b0db7274298a4b96558374832"
 SRCREV_tfm = "c74be3890c9d975976fde1b1a3b2f5742bec34c0"
 
 ZEPHYR_BRANCH = "v2.7-branch"
-PV = "2.7.1+git${SRCPV}"
+PV = "2.7.2+git${SRCPV}"
 
 SRC_URI:append = " file://dtc.patch"