[oe] introducing a new architecture/machine; policy ? (and a question)

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/6/20 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
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> On 20-06-10 11:58, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I'm about to complete bringing a new architecture (nios2 with mmu) and
>> machine (cyclone III FPGA starter kit, and maybe also the Nios2
>> Embeddeded Evaluation Kit (aka neek)) to oe.
>> Is there a policy on on the process how to do this.
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> Have a look at the nios2 patches Leon sent last december, they were
> reviewed on this list, but not committed.

Koen, thanks for reminding me the look at the review comments.

I'm well aware of the work of Leon and Walter (and they are well aware
of my work).
Note that what Leon posted was for a non-mmu nios2 core, whereas the
changes I have is for an mmu core.

Triggered by Koens reminder I revisited the review comments. Actually
none but one are applicable for me.
The one that is applicable is the one about pinning versions in
machine descriptions.
I have also done that, as there are simply no other versions of
binutils and gcc that can be used by this hardware.
Also I don't feel empowered to make changes in distribution specific files.

The only alternative way that I can think of is doing something like:
DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_nios2 = "1" in the recipes I need.
No idea if that overrules the distro settings or not, but I can give
it a try later today.

Have fun! Frans.