[oe] [RFC] ts72xx, ts73xx, ts74xx? How to handle properly similar machines

[Koen Kooi]

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On 14-10-10 14:45, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been asked if I could add support for the ts7400 board/machine in the OE.
> It's not a big deal, it's just an addition of one patch to the kernel recipe.
> 
> While I'll be into it, I was thinking about adding the base for the possible
> future addition of ts7300[2] boards also. Althought I own only ts7800 and
> ts7250, the ts7200[4], ts7300 and ts7400 families looks like they have a lot
> of common and it would be possible to have for example one kernel for all of
> them.
> 
> The question is, how to handle this correctly in OE? On the IRC, I was pointed
> to the SOC_FAMILY[3], but it says "The use of SOC_FAMILY as an override is
> currently a distribution or local setting", what does it mean?

It means you need to use angstrom or set is as override in local.conf
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