From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: any necessity for MACHINEOVERRIDES in mpc8315e-rdb.conf?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:35:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1489667735.13980.103.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1703160713080.22627@uk63952.mitel.com>
On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 07:23 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> (yet more pedantry, but when i try to explain stuff like this to
> students, it's nice to know what i'm talking about.)
>
> i notice the following excerpts from YP's mpc8315e-rdb.conf:
>
> KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage"
> UBOOT_MACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "MPC8315ERDB_config"
> KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "mpc8315erdb.dtb"
>
> what is the purpose (if any) for the "mpc8315e-rdb" override in the
> line:
>
> UBOOT_MACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "MPC8315ERDB_config"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> given that this is a machine config file for a specific target,
> "mpc8315e-rdb", wouldn't this suffice?
>
> UBOOT_MACHINE = "MPC8315ERDB_config"
I suspect this would be fine, yes.
Cheers,
Richard
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2017-03-16 11:23 any necessity for MACHINEOVERRIDES in mpc8315e-rdb.conf? Robert P. J. Day
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