From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.5]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OggbI-0004xJ-1u for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:13:59 +0200 Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([unknown] [71.251.53.61]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0L6M003WWYEG7E71@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:13:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD50614AF64; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:13:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:13:27 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-id: <20100804161327.GA7189@denix.org> References: <1280872040-31952-1-git-send-email-chase.maupin@ti.com> <20100804001959.GF17391@denix.org> <20100804052042.GB7085@gmail.com> <1280920678.26249.33.camel@saphir> <1280922518.2692.377.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <1280922518.2692.377.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 206.46.173.5 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: denis@denix.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [PATCH] base.bbclass: add support for SOC_FAMILY in COMPATIBLE_MACHINES X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:13:59 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:48:38PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 13:17 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > FWIW, minimal is using MACHINE_CLASS since quite a while to > > reduce the need for adding the same files over and over again, > > this is being used e.g. for HTC msm7 series and OpenEZX series > > (see conf/machine/include). > > > > Perhaps it's time to standardize something like that. > > Yeah. I certainly don't think we want a proliferation of such > mechanisms. If minimal is already using MACHINE_CLASS then there would > be some sense in trying to make use of the same thing. > > Failing that though, testing COMPATIBLE_MACHINE against MACHINE_CLASS > probably is more desirable than adding a completely new variable (i.e. > SOC_FAMILY) for that purpose. Phil, Re: "adding a completely new variable" - SOC_FAMILY has been in use for almost a year now. I'm hearing about MACHINE_CLASS for the first time, although it appears to be slightly older than SOC_FAMILY though. But it doesn't seem to be used anywhere besides in few machine configs and micro.conf. There are no recipes actually using it, unlike SOC_FAMILY... I'm not saying one is better than the other (actually, unifying them would be nice), I'm just saying it's too late to object adding SOC_FAMILY... -- Denys