[OE-core] Architectures with underscores in their names, how to handle that?

[Khem Raj]

On Oct 9, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on adding support for big-endian armv8 and the toolchain people decided that it should be named 'aarch64_eb'. That currently works in OE because there isn't a 'eb' override yet, but there might be one in the future.
> 

why not suggest them to use aarch64eb is that too hard a change ?
it matches other known Big Endian naming conventions like mips and so on in autotools world.

> So my question is, how can I safely handle a name like this?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
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