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From: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Openembedded-announce] kernel maintainers: COMPATIBLE_MACHINE field will become mandatory
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Hello Koen,

Thursday, October 12, 2006, 12:22:15 PM, you wrote:

[]

> Hi,

> At the OEDEM conference we decided that the COMPATIBLE_MACHINE field will be mandatory for
>  kernel recipes. If you maintain a kernel recipe: add the appropriate COMPATIBLE_MACHINE
> field. If you don't maintain a kernel recipe, but want to help: patches welcome.

> The COMPATIBLE_MACHINE machine field tells bitbake for which machines this is a valid
> kernel to avoid surprises for some reason the
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel gets broken.
> A lot of kernels already have that field, so have a look at first if you any questions.

  Just a question - should there be already machine conf file in OE
for anything added to COMPATIBLE_MACHINE, or can something be added as
an informative, "for-future", annotation?

> regards,

> Koen


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