Re: Question about aarch64 target

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

On 14-08-28 16:03:51, Kang Kai wrote:
> On 2014年08月28日 15:33, Khem Raj wrote:
> >On 14-08-27 18:53:41, Kang Kai wrote:
> >>Hi Saul,
> >>
> >>I am working on Bug 6487 - Add Aarch64 qemu target. I take tune and config
> >>files from linaro then succeeds to build core-image-minimal and
> >>core-image-sato.
> >>
> >>And I have 2 question about it now:
> >>1 What should the new qemu aarch64 bsp looks like at the end? Do the files
> >>in the patch attached are enough? And what more test should we do except to
> >>build images such as core-image-sato, core-image-sato even build world?
> >>
> >may be eventually support linux-yocto, and linux-linaro both, it should
> >be tested at same level as other QEMU BSPs
> >
> >>2 There 2 aarch64 configure files from linaro. First one is little endian
> >>and it is as default, and the other one is big endian. I take the little
> >>endian one as qemuarm64.conf as linaro does. Do we need add the other one as
> >>qemuarm64_be.conf or something like that?
> >Name them same as meta-linaro please, so eventually linaro layer can
> >drop it and take up the maintenance of them in OE-Core
> 
> Keep same name with linaro is convenient for merge work. But the name
> 'genericarmv8'  is not coordinated with existing qemu bsps. I prefer to use
> qemuarmv8 for coordination.

Thats a valid point, I would give in.