[oe] [PATCH] distro: Add new feature to indicate thumb-interworking.

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 15:44 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> +# Add thumb-interwork to feature list if selected machine supports it.
> +DISTRO_FEATURES += ' ${@["", "thumb-interwork"][bb.data.getVar('THUMB_INTERWORK', d, 1) == "yes"]}'

Would it not be better to put this in some generic place (maybe even
bitbake.conf) rather than adding it to every DISTRO individually?

> --- a/conf/distro/include/slugos.inc
> +++ b/conf/distro/include/slugos.inc
> @@ -23,9 +23,18 @@ DISTRO_VERSION ?= "${SLUGOS_VERSION}${DISTRO_REVISION}-${DISTRO_TYPE}"
>  # DISTRO_FEED ?= "${SLUGOS_VERSION}-${DISTRO_TYPE}"
>  DISTRO_FEED ?= "unstable"
>  
> +THUMB_INTERWORK = "yes"
> +# "yes" "no"
> +#    Whether to compile with code to allow interworking between the two
> +#    instruction sets.  This allows thumb code to be executed on a primarily
> +#    arm system and vice versa.  It is strongly recommended that DISTROs not
> +#    turn this off - the actual cost is very small.
>  # We want images supporting the following features (for task-base)
>  DISTRO_FEATURES = "nfs smbfs wifi ppp alsa bluetooth ext2 vfat irda pcmcia usbgadget usbhost pci"

Is this a policy change for slugos?  If so, are the SlugOS people happy
with it?

p.