Re: [OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH v4 6/6] tunes/armv8: move to a new location

Otavio Salvador
2020-09-30T02:46:50Z

Em ter., 29 de set. de 2020 às 21:38, Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> escreveu:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:58 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Lets not do it. For couple of reasons,
> >
> > There are BSPs including these include files which are using same
> > branch across multiple yocto releases, this will break them
> > files under include/<ARCH> are common at arch level, this moved the
> > CPU implementation ( cortex* ) under it, seems odd and even more odd
> > when you consider arm32 tunes.
>
> There are so many specific files and I'm about to add even more
> (cortex-m). I agree that it should be done uniformly, instead of
> doing just the armv8 ones. So, let's drop this patch (not the
> series), and I'll address it after the gatesgarth release.

Could those tune files be generated? This could allow a hierarchical
structure but easy maintenance. This might be a way to reduce the
maintenance burden and avoid breaking old BSPs.

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