[OE-core] OpenMP and OE-core (or: Why is OpenMP explicitly disabled?)

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 January 2013 10:27, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
> When trying to use OpenMP in an embedded ARM project, I found that oe-core
> explicitly tells GCC to NOT include the OpenMP support.
>
> Is there a particular reason why this was done?

Mainly because multi-core historically isn't where OE is used, but
that's obviously changing as "embedded" is including massively
parallel data centre uses.

It's totally reasonable for this to be some sort of tunable you can
configure in local.conf, be it a gcc configuration you can override or
a DISTRO_FEATURE.

Ross