From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:37:29 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH resend] owl-linux: new package In-Reply-To: References: <1340651389-7856-1-git-send-email-spdawson@gmail.com> <20120626093557.2de31adb@skate> Message-ID: <20120626103729.4b0fbffd@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:07:46 +0100, Simon Dawson a ?crit : > > Maybe group the ARM9 and EABI checks into one comment? And maybe make > > it visible only on ARM? > > > > comment "owl-linux is only supported on ARM9 architecture with EABI" > > ? ? ? ?depends on !(BR2_arm920t || BR2_arm922t || BR2_arm926t) || !BR2_ARM_EABI > > ? ? ? ?depends on BR2_arm > > > > or something like that. > > Good idea; I will do this. Thanks! > > At some point in the discussion, it was mentioned that this driver > > might only work with one particular CodeSourcery toolchain, which would > > suggest that it uses the C library, and therefore contain userspace > > code. But here you're only installing the kernel module itself. Could > > you clarify this point, just for our (my?) knowledge? > > I'm using the Buildroot-generated uClibc-based toolchain, and have had > no problems so far. The kernel module installed by this package is all > that is required to make the H&D Wireless hardware work. Ok, if there's only kernel code, then I guess the only problem is the ABI, which you've already handled by requiring EABI, so that looks good. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com