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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 05/23/2018 05:59 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Randy MacLeod
> <randy.macleod at windriver.com> wrote:
>> On 05/23/2018 05:01 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> I think we've updated the CPU used by qemux86 a few times (and with
> kvm doesn't it even change depending on the host?).

Correct. There's no requirement to update the board emulation just
to tweak the cpu ISA.

The qemuarma9 board has some gaps with respect to the old versatile926ejs.
So unless the cpu update doesn't work, I'm all for leaving the
board the same but just changing the cpu.

Bruce

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