[OE-core] [PATCH] gcc-configure-common.inc: duplicate armv7a over-ride for armv8a

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 18:32 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 10:37 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> > 
> > Renaming armv8a -> aarch32 is going to affect almost every line in
> > the patch. We should probably drop the current patch from master-
> > next.
> 
> "AArch32" applies retrospectively to all older versions of the ARM
> architecture as well, so it's not obvious to me that a straight
> rename
> of the existing "armv8a" override to "aarch32" would be the right
> thing
> either. 
> 
> I think the whole approach to ARMv8 and AArch64 in OE needs to be
> carefully thought through before we start landing any patches for
> that
> stuff.  We have a tangled enough maze of overrides right now and I
> think we should make all efforts to avoid it getting worse.

Agreed, I'm planning to drop the patch triggering this from -next and
defer it until 2.2. The discussions can happen in the meantime to get a
patchset we're all happy with.

Cheers,

Richard