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On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 17:19 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 17:07 +0100, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote:
> > 
> > On 10/07/2016 04:48 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 12:53 +0100, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel
> > > wrote:
> > > What I will say though is that we really need to think about an
> > > "allmips", or "mipsarch" override, rather than all these
> > > duplicate
> > > lines for all mips variants. This is something we should fix
> > > early
> > > in
> > > the 2.3 cycle and should make some of this look a lot neater. It
> > > might
> > > be worth openening a bug for this in the bugzilla and assigning
> > > that to
> > > yourself, assuming you're happy to work on it?
> > The duplicate lines are bothersome indeed.
> > I'm happy to work on it. But I'm still a bit new to OE internals so
> > would
> > prefer a little direction regarding the best approach to take.
> Very roughly speaking, you'd add something like:
> 
> MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "mipsarch"

er, I do mean:

MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "mipsarch:"

Cheers,

Richard