[oe] [RFC] handhelds-pxa-2.6 -> linux-handhelds-2.6

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Erik,

Saturday, October 14, 2006, 6:35:21 PM, you wrote:

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> Well, *ahem* the defconfig that the -sa bb specifies will build a sa
> kernel, the defconfig that -pxa specifies will build a pxa kernel.

  Well, OE.dev now uses per-machine overrides for defconfigs, so this
won't be an issue.

> The recipes themselves do not bild in the constraint. Thanks for double
> checking.

  Ok, so we should be pretty safe to do the rename. I've cleared my
tree from otehr patches, so will start on this.


>   The related question is however EABI support on pre-armv5 arhcs.
> Koen, can you (possibly, once again ;-) ) elaborate, what we have
> here. I hope noone (maybe, except ARM Inc.) talks about no EABI
> support on armv4 machines? Maybe it won't be that thumb instruction
> (let there be more memory in each of us), maybe there indeed be armv4
> and armv5 specific binaries (with armv4 working around that
> isntruction), but we will have Angstrom and other coolness on
> all machines, right?

  Koen pointed me to the same old page regarding this:
http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort . So yes, there're ways to support
both armv4t and armv4 (i.e. thumb-less) archs with EABI. It's separate
question when thumb-less CPUs will be actually supported, but all
needed info for that is available.

  I also went to check what's the state of thumb support for CPUs used
in consumer PocketPC and Palm devices, and (sorry if that's well known
trivia) that only StrongARM SA1110 doesn't support thumb. I annotated
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HandheldHardwareXref with that
(well, I didn't really check OMAPs yet, but I'm sure they are
thumb-able).

  
> E




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