From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:32:01 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Knowing whether the target is multicore In-Reply-To: <20131211053520.GD1217@tarshish> References: <20131211053520.GD1217@tarshish> Message-ID: <20131212083201.42f53a47@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Baruch Siach, On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:35:20 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote: > Whether a target is SMP or not depends on architecture and kernel > configuration, and that might be outside of Buildroot control when not > building the kernel internally. In my opinion, there should be a config option > allowing the user to select the SMP version or the UP one (or both). I agree with Baruch: for now, we don't have many packages (if any other than the one Frank is talking about) that need to know whether the target will be UP or SMP. Therefore, I would suggest to have an Erlang specific option to select this behavior. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com