[OE-core] [PATCH] siteinfo: nios2-linux - remove wrong mutex info
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Tue Oct 3 20:52:10 UTC 2017
On 10/03/2017 10:44 PM, Bystricky, Juro wrote:
>
>> While I understand ARM/ is wrong, why is removing the db_cv_mutex a
>> correct fix instead of ie. s/ARM/nios2/ ? The patch description does not
>> explain that.
>
> With the relatively recent commit http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-support/db?id=f4e8e9242c5df095b52688b083df3c9d36e7144b
> some nios2 builds (uboot, core-image-minimal, etc) were broken due to db trying to
> use ARM instructions in mutexes. The reason was db "configure" used the cached entry
> from nios2-linux (which was incorrect). So the remedy was to remove the incorrect cached entry
> and let db "configure" figure out which is the proper mutex to use.
> Besides, I don't even know if nios2/gcc-assembly exists.
> Also, none of other Linux info files provides this entry (db_cv_mutex).
>
This should be in the commit message ...
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Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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