[OE-core] [PATCH] gcc-runtime: Add libmpx supprt for x86

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 14:58 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 3 March 2017 at 21:39, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Enabling building the Intel Memory Protection Extension library
>> > > > for x86.
>> > > >
>> > > hope this works on amd chips as well ?
>> >
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX
>> >
>> > It depends on new instructions, so you'll have to ask AMD. :)
>> OK if its not so then perhaps a bbappend in meta-intel is more
>> appropriate.
>
> Well, its part of gcc, not something meta-intel is patching in and its
> a standard which other arches can implement, maybe in their own library
> so I believe the recipe is the better place for this to live. I just
> copied the description from the code iirc.
>

I think its ok on second thought if its the case where it will be used
more often then probably a provision to be able to remove it from a
soc layer
would be enough

> Incidentally, this fails to build on musl so I've just disabled it on
> musl for now.
>

OK

> Cheers,
>
> Richard