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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] read-edid package - clarifications
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:49:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120503124906.GA7331@sapphire.tkos.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADiAo4K90x6ZANyvQk7SYP=o=YmimOHDn+wfHLSrwE7bumcLKA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dimitry,

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:32:35AM -0400, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
> Baruch's comment:
> 
> > read-edid can only run on x86 PCs and PowerPC Macs, so it should depend on
> > (BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64 || BR2_powerpc).
> 
> I only tested it on i386, not sure about x86-64, and definitely not on
> powerpc as it has x86 real-mode stuff in it. So perhaps I'll keep i386
> only.

read-edid seems to work perfectly on my x86_64 laptop. So keeping BR2_x86_64 
should be safe.

As for PowerPC, I guess the low level code is selected at build time according 
to the target platform. I haven't looked at the code, though.

baruch

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-03 10:32 [Buildroot] read-edid package - clarifications Dimitry Golubovsky
2012-05-03 12:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-05-03 12:49 ` Baruch Siach [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-03 13:27 Dimitry Golubovsky
2012-05-03 18:22 ` Baruch Siach
2012-05-03 18:43   ` Dimitry Golubovsky

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