Re: [PATCH] gcc-configure-common.inc: duplicate armv7a over-ride for armv8a

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

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> On Mar 24, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 18:32 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 10:37 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>> 
>>> Renaming armv8a -> aarch32 is going to affect almost every line in
>>> the patch. We should probably drop the current patch from master-
>>> next.
>> 
>> "AArch32" applies retrospectively to all older versions of the ARM
>> architecture as well, so it's not obvious to me that a straight
>> rename
>> of the existing "armv8a" override to "aarch32" would be the right
>> thing
>> either.
>> 
>> I think the whole approach to ARMv8 and AArch64 in OE needs to be
>> carefully thought through before we start landing any patches for
>> that
>> stuff.  We have a tangled enough maze of overrides right now and I
>> think we should make all efforts to avoid it getting worse.
> 
> Agreed, I'm planning to drop the patch triggering this from -next and
> defer it until 2.2. The discussions can happen in the meantime to get a
> patchset we're all happy with.

hopefully we will be able to cherry-pick into 2.1 at later stage ?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard


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