From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ibawizard.net ([82.208.49.253] helo=mengele.ibawizard.net ident=postfix) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6NCQ-0002ws-Fx for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:46:28 +0200 Received: by mengele.ibawizard.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 802C71D36170; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:45:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:45:48 +0200 From: Petr =?iso-8859-2?Q?=A9tetiar?= To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-ID: <20101014124548.GJ28423@ibawizard.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.208.49.253 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ynezz@mengele.ibawizard.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=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: [RFC] ts72xx, ts73xx, ts74xx? How to handle properly similar 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: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:46:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I've been asked if I could add support for the ts7400 board/machine in the OE. It's not a big deal, it's just an addition of one patch to the kernel recipe. While I'll be into it, I was thinking about adding the base for the possible future addition of ts7300[2] boards also. Althought I own only ts7800 and ts7250, the ts7200[4], ts7300 and ts7400 families looks like they have a lot of common and it would be possible to have for example one kernel for all of them. The question is, how to handle this correctly in OE? On the IRC, I was pointed to the SOC_FAMILY[3], but it says "The use of SOC_FAMILY as an override is currently a distribution or local setting", what does it mean? Would it be possible to create, say ts7234.inc file with shared stuff for all the boards, and separate ts7{2,3,4}xx.conf files with the features for each series, say ts73xx would contain FPGA/video related stuff etc, so the machine specific overrides would be needed. Any thoughts? Thanks. 1. http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7400 2. http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-sbc.php#ts-7300-fpga-series 3. http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/html/commonuse_new_machine.html 4. http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-sbc.php#ts-7200-200mhz-series -- ynezz