[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] base.bbclass: Add compatibility package name mapping handler

[Koen Kooi]

Op 27 jul. 2011, om 17:02 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:44 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> On 7/27/11 9:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> This means if PKGARCHCOMPAT_ARMV7A is set, "armv7a-vfp-neon" is renamed
>>> to be "armv7a". Other compatibility mappings can be added as needed.
>> 
>> There are multiple armv7 cores without neon...  I think there might even be one
>> or two custom cores w/o VFP.  (Yes I know this violates the core spec from ARM,
>> but people do that all of the time.)
> 
> Which spec are you thinking of?  As far as I know, VFP has always been
> optional for both ARM11 and Cortex.

From the conversations I had with ARM they implied that it isn't optional for cortex a8/9/15, only neon is (e.g. marvell dove, nvidia tegra2). I haven't seen any black on white contracts saying that, though :)

regards,

Koen