[OE-core] [PATCH] linux-yocto: add to qemuppc64 to bb file

[Mark Hatle]

On 9/15/14, 10:08 AM, akuster808 wrote:
>
>
> On 09/15/2014 06:11 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 14-09-12 10:49 PM, Armin Kuster wrote:
>>> Not sure if this this is the correct process.
>>
>> I'll grab the patch and carry it here, and update the SRCREVs at the
>> same time as the other BSPs.
>
> Great, thanks.
>
>>
>> As for adding qemuppc64 fully to the supported set of emulated BSPs
>> for 1.7, that's Richard's call (and I haven't checked to see if the
>> other patches were merged).
>
> Being this late in the 1.7 schedule, I would advise targeting such a
> claim until 1.8.  I was surprised by the number for warnings and errors
> a limited world build (meta-networking) burped up considering ppc64 is
> already supported by a few BSP's.

What I've seen is PPC64 (userspace) isn't used much.. most folks are using PPC32 
userspace w/ a PPC64 kernel..  (and the occasional large memory application.)

So I'm not surprised there are issues with meta-networking and other components 
not being well tested on PPC64...

--Mark

> - Armin
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808 at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>    meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.14.bb | 4 +++-
>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.14.bb
>>> b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.14.bb
>>> index e06b191..dfe1de0 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.14.bb
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.14.bb
>>> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ require recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
>>>    KBRANCH_qemuarm  ?= "standard/arm-versatile-926ejs"
>>>    KBRANCH_qemumips ?= "standard/mti-malta32"
>>>    KBRANCH_qemuppc  ?= "standard/qemuppc"
>>> +KBRANCH_qemuppc64  ?= "standard/qemuppc"
>>>    KBRANCH_qemux86  ?= "standard/common-pc/base"
>>>    KBRANCH_qemux86-64 ?= "standard/common-pc-64/base"
>>>    KBRANCH_qemumips64 ?= "standard/mti-malta64"
>>> @@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ KBRANCH_qemumips64 ?= "standard/mti-malta64"
>>>    SRCREV_machine_qemuarm ?= "c32a2e1190325f685a61196f38fc03ceff2645bf"
>>>    SRCREV_machine_qemumips ?= "1ff50c529b49ceb55a670258f7cb8233c8006c6c"
>>>    SRCREV_machine_qemuppc ?= "12e9828a5b78891374375233b4075f682b9fbd0e"
>>> +SRCREV_machine_qemuppc64 ?= "12e9828a5b78891374375233b4075f682b9fbd0e"
>>>    SRCREV_machine_qemux86 ?= "58d49fe770ad642e2bc0616159195ba837dc513b"
>>>    SRCREV_machine_qemux86-64 ?= "b85edae6fd61ceadfc08099608e8ac90aa4c5c33"
>>>    SRCREV_machine_qemumips64 ?= "dcd579737386fca4d7bcf224bc118b14eb3c1d55"
>>> @@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
>>>
>>>    KMETA = "meta"
>>>
>>> -COMPATIBLE_MACHINE =
>>> "qemuarm|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64"
>>> +COMPATIBLE_MACHINE =
>>> "qemuarm|qemux86|qemuppc|qemuppc64|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64"
>>>
>>>    # Functionality flags
>>>    KERNEL_EXTRA_FEATURES ?= "features/netfilter/netfilter.scc"
>>>
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