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

[Khem Raj]

On (05/08/10 01:56), Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 04-08-10 23:37, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Maupin, Chase <chase.maupin at ti.com> wrote:
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> >>> From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> >>> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> >>> Khem Raj
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:49 PM
> >>> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [oe] [PATCH] base.bbclass: add support for SOC_FAMILY in
> >>> COMPATIBLE_MACHINES
> >>>
> >>> 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:
> > 
> > and omap3 family is armv7-a or cortex-a8 based can it have different
> > CPUs and be still categorized as omap3
> > is there omap3 specific you need which is not covered with armv7-a or cortex-a8
> 
> DSP, SGX, IVA, DSS, AESE, ISP, take your pick.

I see. Do we have knobs to toggle their use in some applications ?

> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
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