[OE-core] [oe-commits] Andy Voltz : tune-cortexa.inc: create a common include for cortex-a armv7a tuning

[Andy Voltz]

Hi Khem,

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:12:47AM -0400, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Andy Voltz <andy.voltz at timesys.com> wrote:
> >> > ERROR:  OE-core's config sanity checker detected a potential misconfiguration.
> >> >     Either fix the cause of this error or at your own risk disable the checker (see sanity.conf).
> >> >     Following is the list of potential problems / advisories:
> >> >
> >> >     Error, the PACKAGE_ARCHS variable does not contain TUNE_PKGARCH (${ARMPKGARCH_tune-cortexa8t-neon}).Toolchain tunings invalid:
> >> > Tuning 'cortexa8t-neon' has no defined features, and cannot be used.
> >> >
> >> > ERROR: Execution of event handler 'check_sanity_eventhandler' failed
> >> >
> >> > Please use tests like
> >> > http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=jansa/tune2-test
> >> > to check that all tunes are still valid after such change.
> >>
> >
> > I was not aware of this test. I'll look into this.
> 
> This patch is not going to work. How did you test it ?
> Its trying to substitute into overrides which then are not expanded
> before being treated as overrides.
> as a result overrides variable themselves are wrong.
> We have to revert this patch please and I conur with Martin it did not
> seem like a significant improvement either.

I understand that. I sent an updated patch which reverts to mtune, but I'm getting
acquainted with this tune test and it's still showing issues. I'm need to dig in more.

I tested this originally by building for the cortex-a5. I'm going to revert
locally and keep using this test to keep things consistent.

Regards
-- 
Andy Voltz
Timesys Corporation