Re: [PATCH] base.bbclass: add support for SOC_FAMILY in COMPATIBLE_MACHINES

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On (03/08/10 20:19), Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:47:20PM -0500, Chase Maupin wrote:
> > * Add support for using SOC_FAMILY in the COMPATIBLE_MACHINES
> >   setting for a recipe.
> > * This will allow recipes to work for entire families of
> >   devices without having to maintain/update the compatible
> >   devices as new devices are added into a family
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin@ti.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>
> 
> While SOC_FAMILY feature is relatively new on its own, it was designed and now 
> being extensively used with TI machines and corresponding recipes as an 
> effective override - e.g. covering many OMAP3-based machines with a single 
> VAR_omap3 = "VAL" expression.

So arch -> sub-arch -> soc ->machine seems to be the heirarchy. I
would prefer to keep it per machine unless its too much clutter
and we have so many machines specific recipes.

> 
> > ---
> >  classes/base.bbclass |    4 +++-
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/classes/base.bbclass b/classes/base.bbclass
> > index 1847491..02c7875 100644
> > --- a/classes/base.bbclass
> > +++ b/classes/base.bbclass
> > @@ -389,7 +389,9 @@ python () {
> >              import re
> >              this_machine = bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1)
> >              if this_machine and not re.match(need_machine, this_machine):
> > -                raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with machine %s" % this_machine)
> > +                this_soc_family = bb.data.getVar('SOC_FAMILY', d, 1)
> > +                if this_soc_family and not re.match(need_machine, this_soc_family):
> > +                    raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with machine %s" % this_machine)
> >  
> >          need_target = bb.data.getVar('COMPATIBLE_TARGET_SYS', d, 1)
> >          if need_target:
> > -- 
> > 1.7.0.4
> > 
> > 
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