[OE-core] [PATCH v2] insane.bbclass: Added Epiphany machine definitions

[Peter Saunderson]

Updated subject line.

On 30/03/15 22:14, Peter Saunderson wrote:
> On 30/03/15 03:11, Nathan Rossi wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Peter Saunderson <peteasa at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> You have [meta-oe] in your subject, I believe you are after just
>> oe-core with this patch correct?
> Yes, sorry wrong subject line.  oe-core only.
>> Adding machine definitions for the epiphany 
>> (http://www.adapteva.com/) chip.
>> using https://github.com/adapteva/epiphany-binutils-gdb.
>> For binutils implementation that defines TARGET_ARCH MACHINE 
>> "epiphany": 4643 See 
>> https://github.com/adapteva/epiphany-binutils-gdb/blob/epiphany-binutils-2.24/bfd/elf32-epiphany.c
>> Epiphany is in upstream binutils with the matching ID,
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=include/elf/common.h;h=25cfef2d6b1ae8e3f976f1e55576d0fbaff79027;hb=HEAD#l408 
>>
>>
>>> For example layer that uses these defines see 
>>> https://github.com/peteasa/meta-epiphany.git
>>>
>>> Epiphany cross compile is confused by package_qa_check_arch so this 
>>> check is also skipped.
>>> ---
>>>   meta/classes/insane.bbclass | 7 +++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
>>> index c6dea22..9cdb382 100644
>>> --- a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
>>> +++ b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
>>> @@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ def package_qa_get_machine_dict():
>>>               "darwin9" : {
>>>                           "arm" :       (40,     0, 0,          
>>> True,          32),
>>>                         },
>>> +            "e-os" :  {
>> I assume 'e-os' is short hand for 'epiphany-os'?
>>
>> Is there are reason for using e-os? I noticed in your layer that your
>> toolchains are actually target os 'elf' (e.g. epiphany-elf-gcc), in
>> which case it should be 'elf' that goes into the TARGET_OS variable.
>> This might be the reason for the issues that you see when compiling?
> Perhaps the best way to understand my need to skip the 
> package_qa_check_arch is to comment out the FIXME lines for cross, 
> nativesdk and cross-canadian and run bitbake.  The files created with 
> cross compile etc are designed to execute on one machine and produce 
> run time files for another so the package_qa_check fails if you 
> include the check for builds that inherit from cross, nativesdk and 
> cross-canadian.  Thus the FIXME for cross, nativesdk and 
> cross-canadian allows gcc-cross-arm etc to build and be packaged.
>
> Now the tag e-os started as a shorthand for epiphany-os but actually 
> the os of the end product in this case does not matter and should not 
> be important to this check.  The package_qa_check_arch check is 
> designed to ensure that the right kind of file gets packaged and 
> eventually installed on the end product, in this case a linux system 
> running on arm.  The check is not run for packages that get installed 
> on linux running on x86_64 that are cross compilers for the linux arm 
> system.  Now with the epiphany case all the packages get installed on 
> a system that they do not run on!  They get installed in the poky sdk 
> so that I can cross compile and create an elf file that I can download 
> and run on the epiphany chip.  They also get installed on the linux 
> arm product and again get run eventually on the epiphany chip.  So if 
> the package_qa_check_arch is run on any of the packages tagged with 
> e-os then it would fail because they always get installed on a 
> architecture that is not compatible because the linux arm system is 
> acting as a host for the epiphany system.
>
> Perhaps it would be better to re-name this tag exotic-os because any 
> chip like epiphany or avr could have an entry in this group. At some 
> time in the future it would be possible to implement separate checks 
> for any of these exotic packages, however I am not sure that there is 
> value in spending the effort.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nathan
>>
>>> +                        "epiphany":   ( 4643,  0,    0,          
>>> True,          32),
>>> +                      },
>>>               "linux" : {
>>>                           "aarch64" :   (183,    0, 0,          
>>> True,          64),
>>>                           "aarch64_be" :(183,    0, 0,          
>>> False,         64),
>>> @@ -445,6 +448,10 @@ def package_qa_check_arch(path,name,d, elf, 
>>> messages):
>>>       provides = d.getVar('PROVIDES', True)
>>>       bpn = d.getVar('BPN', True)
>>>
>>> +    # FIXME: epiphany cross compile confuses this check
>>> +    if (target_os == 'e-os'):
>>> +        return
>>> +
>>>       # FIXME: Cross package confuse this check, so just skip them
>>>       for s in ['cross', 'nativesdk', 'cross-canadian']:
>>>           if bb.data.inherits_class(s, d):
> Try to comment these two lines out and then do a bitbake for your 
> target and for the sdk and analyse the results to see the failures 
> induced by including the package_qa_check_arch for gcc- cross, 
> nativesdk and cross-canadian.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
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