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

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 04-08-10 23:37, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Maupin, Chase <chase.maupin@ti.com> wrote:
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>>> From: openembedded-devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org
>>> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Khem Raj
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:49 PM
>>> To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
>>> Subject: Re: [oe] [PATCH] base.bbclass: add support for SOC_FAMILY in
>>> COMPATIBLE_MACHINES
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:47 -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
>>>>
>>>> I don't suppose you'd consider refactoring your MACHINE names in order
>>>> to allow a simple regex in COMPATIBLE_MACHINE?
>>>
>>> that would be a good approach too. Has it been
>>> considered.
>>
>> As I mentioned before, we are matching the machine names to the name of the actual device.  Unfortunately, not every device that falls into an SOC family has a similar name and cannot all be dictated by us.  For example in omap3 SOC_FAMILY there is:
> 
> and omap3 family is armv7-a or cortex-a8 based can it have different
> CPUs and be still categorized as omap3
> is there omap3 specific you need which is not covered with armv7-a or cortex-a8

DSP, SGX, IVA, DSS, AESE, ISP, take your pick.

regards,

Koen
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