[OE-core] [PATCH] insane.bbclass: skip checking arch (machine/bits) for powerpc kernel recipe

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Matthew McClintock <msm at freescale.com> wrote:
>> For a 32-bit machine, we still might always (or optionally) want to build a
>> 64-bit kernel so we add an exception.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matthew McClintock <msm at freescale.com>
>> ---
>> Not sure if we should just skip for all virtual/kernel's?
>>
>>  meta/classes/insane.bbclass |    6 ++++--
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
>> index e74eb3f..2ca1b49 100644
>> --- a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
>> +++ b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
>> @@ -366,11 +366,13 @@ def package_qa_check_arch(path,name,d, elf, messages):
>>
>>      # Check the architecture and endiannes of the binary
>>      if not ((machine == elf.machine()) or \
>> -       ("virtual/kernel" in provides) and (target_os == "linux-gnux32")):
>> +       ("virtual/kernel" in provides) and (target_os == "linux-gnux32") or \
>> +       ("virtual/kernel" in provides) and (target_arch == "powerpc")):
>
> I feel using powerpc target_arch here is a broad brush. Can there be
> some other variable in metadata
> that could indicate 64bit kernel and a 32bit ppc userspace combo of
> some sort ? or may be a variable
> stating that this machine's kernel is 64bit and use that here instead.

I added BUILD_64BIT_KERNEL in my layer for building a 64-bit kernel on
a 32-bit machine, we could use this (or another "better" name)

-M

>
>>          messages.append("Architecture did not match (%d to %d) on %s" % \
>>                   (machine, elf.machine(), package_qa_clean_path(path,d)))
>>      elif not ((bits == elf.abiSize()) or  \
>> -       ("virtual/kernel" in provides) and (target_os == "linux-gnux32")):
>> +       ("virtual/kernel" in provides) and (target_os == "linux-gnux32") or \
>> +       ("virtual/kernel" in provides) and (target_arch == "powerpc")):
>>          messages.append("Bit size did not match (%d to %d) %s on %s" % \
>>                   (bits, elf.abiSize(), bpn, package_qa_clean_path(path,d)))
>>      elif not littleendian == elf.isLittleEndian():
>> --
>> 1.7.9.7
>>
>>
>>
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