[OE-core] [PATCH 3/7] conf/machine/include: Cleanup MIPS tunings to match README

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 4/4/12 11:17 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Andreas Oberritter<obi at opendreambox.org>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> What was mipsel-oe-linux before now became mips32el-oe-linux, i.e.
>>> tmp/work/mipsel-oe-linux now is tmp/work/mips32el-oe-linux. I'm not sure
>>> what else broke.
>>>
>>> Was this intentional?
>>
>>
>> I dont think so. mips-*-* in general indicates 32bit BE mips and
>> mipsel-*-* indicates
>> 32bit LE mips so devicing mips32 and mips32el may be more explicit but
>> is not widely
>> used norm
>
>
> If that has changed it was certainly not intentional.  As Khem said the
> expected GNU canonical archs are:
>
> mips-*-*
> mipsel-*-*
> mips64-*-*
> mips64el-*-*
>
> mips32 should work, but it was not expected to have changed.
>
> Looking through, the GNU canonical arch should only match the above.  The
> namings in the tmp/work directory are strictly following the -package arch-
> namings, which don't affect system configuration.
>
> I checked the logs from my test builds, and the mips32* reused the mips*
> builds because the canonical arch of the configuration and such were the
> same.
>
> (Looked at config.log in a couple of packages...)  if you see mips32-* in
> the config.log, let me know.

see angstrom buildhistory its all filled with changes from mips -> mips32
its unwanted.