[oe] [PATCH] package_deb.bbclass: armel architecture name for eabi systems.

[Phil Blundell]

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:50 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> I'm a little puzzled. So little endian gnueabi ARM is armel, little 
> endian OABI ARM is arm.  What about big endian ARM cases?  Thanks!

Debian has never had big-endian ARM as an officially supported
architecture, so to that extent there's no precedent to follow in this
area.  

The natural name for a big-endian gnueabi port would obviously be
"armeb".  That does leave big-endian OABI somewhat out in the cold but,
given that OABI has been obsolescent for the best part of a decade, this
doesn't seem totally unreasonable.  If anybody did want to use dpkg with
such a thing (and wanted to avoid colliding with armeb) then I guess
they'd have to name it "armob" or something.

p.