[OE-core] siteinfo split between powerpc-common & powerpc-linux

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Tom Rini wrote:

> On 07/21/2011 11:20 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
>>> On 07/21/2011 09:48 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>>>> Why do we have a split between powerpc-common & powerpc-linux?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I assume powerpc-linux is used and picked up for powerpc-linux-uclibc in addition to normal powerpc-linux.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm looking at adding powerpc64 support and powerpc-common is all kinda of broken for it.  I'd like to just merge powerpc-common & powerpc-linux (as powerpc-linux 32-bit) for now and start a new powerpc-common that refactors 32/64 commonalities.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unless someone says otherwise about the meaning of these files.
>>>> 
>>>> powerpc-common is shared between uclibc and eglibc at present and may
>>>> be shared with other OSes that may build with OE in future.
>>>> traditionally powerpc-common implicitly implied 32bit so I am not
>>>> surprised if its broken for ppc64. You could add powerpc64-common
>>>> and leave 32bit alone. See how its done for mips64 in oe.dev
>>>> 
>>>> http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/site
>>> 
>>> I'd argue that what we do for mips today is also wrong and I'm going to
>>> try and fix it as soon as I can.  In these cases we should have:
>>> common, common-linux, common-$libc, mips-common, mips-linux,
>>> mips64-linux and if needed mips64-linux-libc.
>> 
>> yes that structure would be desirable. It would need a bit of overhaul
>> and lot of testing.
>> since you have something setup for your import from oe stuff for same.
>> may be you can take a stab at it
> 
> Yeah, it's on my list now that the first step is really in :)  I hope to
> get the obvious bits rebased and tested and posted today at least, and
> then get to finishing the obvious bits and start trying the less obvious
> ones.  Glad you fixed uclibc, btw, that had me scratching my head on a
> few things we do today :)

Started an initial attempt at this for PPC and posted some RFC patches.  Take a look and we can go from there.

- k