[oe] [oe-core 4/5] linux-yocto: Add support for qemuarmv7 and qemuarma9.

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi Bruce,

On Aug 29, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:

> On 13-08-29 02:35 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
>> This commit
>> - adds qemuarmv7 and qemuarma9 to the list of compatible machines.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bb |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bb
>> index 790e3e3..0bd9913 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bb
>> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
>> 
>>  KMETA = "meta"
>> 
>> -COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "qemuarm|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64"
>> +COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "qemuarm|qemuarmv7|qemuarma9|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64"
> 
> We can add compatibility, but the same question needs to be asked
> to Richard when we added qemumips64: does the project have the capacity
> to build and QA the machines by default.
> 
> We can always get everything working in layers for the time being and
> then move them into the core, once everything is working well, and
> everyone agrees to add the extra support load.

I recommend that we create a new meta-qemu layer, to support development of
qemu machine configurations for
qemuarmv7 (useful for emulating TI OMAP 3 based platforms)
qemuarma9 (useful for emulating TI OMAP 4 and Freescale i.MX6 platforms)
qemuarmv8 (for AArch64 platforms)
qemumips64 
etc

That should just about cover current ARM A8, A9, A15 and MIPS64.

Best regards,

Elvis Dowson