From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from comal.ext.ti.com (comal.ext.ti.com [198.47.26.152]) by arago-project.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C1F152099 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dlelxv90.itg.ti.com ([172.17.2.17]) by comal.ext.ti.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id t2HJJ8X6016278 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:19:08 -0500 Received: from DFLE73.ent.ti.com (dfle73.ent.ti.com [128.247.5.110]) by dlelxv90.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t2HJJ7lp032466 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:19:07 -0500 Received: from dlep33.itg.ti.com (157.170.170.75) by DFLE73.ent.ti.com (128.247.5.110) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.224.2; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:19:07 -0500 Received: from [158.218.103.10] (ileax41-snat.itg.ti.com [10.172.224.153]) by dlep33.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t2HJJ7pi015376; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:19:07 -0500 Message-ID: <55087E2B.108@ti.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:19:07 -0400 From: Carlos Hernandez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Cooper Jr., Franklin" , "Dmytriyenko, Denys" , "meta-arago@arago-project.org" References: <1426546322-25230-1-git-send-email-denis@denix.org> <1426546322-25230-8-git-send-email-denis@denix.org> <20150317184845.GA9813@edge> <8F29D6B095ED194EA1980491A5E029710C84948A@DFLE08.ent.ti.com> In-Reply-To: <8F29D6B095ED194EA1980491A5E029710C84948A@DFLE08.ent.ti.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7][RFC] packagegroup-*-tisdk-addons: enable compiler and build essentials on omap-a15 X-BeenThere: meta-arago@arago-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Arago metadata layer for TI SDKs - OE-Core/Yocto compatible List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:19:09 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/17/2015 03:03 PM, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote: >> I marked this as RFC to solicit feedback. As explained in the 0/7 cover letter >> >for the series, there are several methods to pull in gcc and build tools to the >> >rootfs. This patch uses the least invasive one and enables minimal set of dev >> >tools and only for omap-a15 SOC platforms (need to repeat it for keystone >> >SOC). That covers Cortex-A15, but I know in the future we'd need target gcc >> >also on am3/4 platforms - would you have any preferences to enable this? > [Franklin] My understanding was the only reason this was needed is to enable developers to be able to compile > dsp code and opencl code on the target for some reason especially since those are very powerful processors with a lot of memory. > > Unless something change this wasn't something we cared to enabled on 335x and 437x. No big deal doing it as long as the file system is bloated but I have no idea who really was going to use this/test this for those platforms. Some Linaro tests does use make in the target. e.g. https://git.linaro.org/?p=tools/pm-qa.git;a=summary