[OE-core] GCC 9 Drops Support For Older ARM Microarchitecture Versions

[Randy MacLeod]

Add Bruce.

On 05/23/2018 05:01 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> Presumably that name was chosen just to avoid a clash with the qemuarm
> machine name used in oe-core?

That seems likely.

Here's an early commit lo from the repo made by Bruce that
shows the output of /proc/cpuinfo:

commit 3f23b7954861bc55f8c10ebbe9934fbd052d2a6d
Author: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>
Date:   Thu May 17 14:24:28 2012 -0400

     wr-bsps: add qemuarma9

     This is the out-of-tree port of the CoreTile Express A9x4 platform,
     running under qemu.

     root at qemuarma9:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
     Processor       : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
     processor       : 0
     BogoMIPS        : 498.89

     Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls
     CPU implementer : 0x41
     CPU architecture: 7
     CPU variant     : 0x0
     CPU part        : 0xc09
     CPU revision    : 0

     Hardware        : ARM-Versatile Express
     Revision        : 0000
     Serial          : 0000000000000000

     Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>


Again, I'm not an arm man so maybe this is old hat to toolchain and
BSP people. I'm just trying to suggest a tested short-cut.

> 
> If/when we update the CPU used in the oe-core qemu ARM machine, I vote
> we continue to just call it "qemuarm".

That would surprise me as a user of qemuarm so my vote is to change the
name unless there's precedent to support your vote.

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