[oe] [PATCH] base.bbclass: add support for SOC_FAMILY in COMPATIBLE_MACHINES

[Maupin, Chase]

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> Khem Raj
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> Subject: Re: [oe] [PATCH] base.bbclass: add support for SOC_FAMILY in
> COMPATIBLE_MACHINES
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:47 -0500, Chase Maupin wrote:
> >> * Add support for using SOC_FAMILY in the COMPATIBLE_MACHINES
> >>   setting for a recipe.
> >> * This will allow recipes to work for entire families of
> >>   devices without having to maintain/update the compatible
> >>   devices as new devices are added into a family
> >
> > I don't suppose you'd consider refactoring your MACHINE names in order
> > to allow a simple regex in COMPATIBLE_MACHINE?
> 
> that would be a good approach too. Has it been
> considered.

As I mentioned before, we are matching the machine names to the name of the actual device.  Unfortunately, not every device that falls into an SOC family has a similar name and cannot all be dictated by us.  For example in omap3 SOC_FAMILY there is:

beagleboard
omap3evm
nokia900
dm37x-evm
archos5
bug20

and many many more.  These machines are defined by a variety of companies, some from TI, some community, Nokia, Archos, etc.  I don't think it is likely that we will get agreement on the naming between all the groups.  I know that just within TI the naming is driven by marketing names for the devices.

> 
> I don't have a strong
> > objection to this patch but, conceptually, it seems a bit ugly.
> 
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