From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [pull-oe-uboot 1/2] u-boot: remove UBOOT_MACHINE and COMPATIBLE_MACHINES
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:37:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306420679.27470.186.camel@rex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306407015.2525.311.camel@phil-desktop>
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:50 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 22:02 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> > COMPATIBLE_MACHINES is not easily extended due to
> > its regex syntax: "(machine_a|machine_b)", making it difficult to extend the
> > u-boot recipe in bbappend files without resorting to machine specific overrides.
>
> Not that I have an objection to your patch, but I think this remark
> about COMPATIBLE_MACHINE is wrong. AFAIK, you can disregard the
> parenthesis and just splice extra alternates on the end, viz:
>
> COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_append = "|mymachine"
>
> so there oughtn't to be any reason, in general, for .bbappends to have a
> hard time extending that field.
u-boot in OE-Core would need something like COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = ""
which makes this harder.
Its usually seem to work out easier to just do:
COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_mymachine = "mymachine"
which avoids several potential issues.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-26 5:01 [PATCH 0/2] u-boot updates to make it more bbappend friendly Darren Hart
2011-05-26 5:02 ` [pull-oe-uboot 1/2] u-boot: remove UBOOT_MACHINE and COMPATIBLE_MACHINES Darren Hart
2011-05-26 7:47 ` Jason Kridner
2011-05-26 13:50 ` Darren Hart
2011-05-26 14:08 ` Chris Larson
2011-05-26 10:50 ` Phil Blundell
2011-05-26 14:37 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2011-05-26 16:18 ` Phil Blundell
2011-05-26 17:46 ` Darren Hart
2011-05-27 14:04 ` Phil Blundell
2011-05-27 15:06 ` Darren Hart
2011-05-27 15:11 ` Phil Blundell
2011-05-26 5:02 ` [pull-oe-uboot 2/2] u-boot: rename u-boot_git.bb to u-boot_${PV}.bb Darren Hart
2011-05-26 7:58 ` Jason Kridner
2011-05-26 13:52 ` Darren Hart
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