[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 6:45 AM, Andy Voltz <andy.voltz at timesys.com> wrote:
> > I understand that. I sent an updated patch which reverts to mtune, but I'm getting
> 
> mtune/march is small issue with this patch. I would recommend to send
> a revert of the patches
> since all arm architectures are broken as of now in OE-Core

I see the issue now. It seems that overriding the tunes with a variable
reference does not work for all the tunings. With the tune test script, I'm
seeing that these tunes are broken:
log.fake-cortexa9.cortexa9*
log.fake-cortexa8.cortexa8*

I see that variables can be assigned with a reference based on stuff like 
FILES_${QT_BASE_NAME}-fonts = ...

(From recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded.inc)

I'm not sure why it works there and not in the tunings, or how to fix.

For now I have a revert patch which removes tune-cortexa.inc and restores the
previous contents of the a7,a8,a9,15 tuning files. 

It also adds the tune-cortexa5.inc file I had sent on the list originally
which led to this code-reduction experiment. That thread is here for reference:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-June/079452.html

Thanks for pointing out this issue. Patch is on the way.

Regards
-- 
Andy Voltz
Timesys Corporation