From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pv0-f175.google.com ([74.125.83.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QZ46W-0006lf-Jy for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:47:08 +0200 Received: by pvf24 with SMTP id 24so1926029pvf.6 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:43:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ANJxAK6nAt5y5pHrL5e/7dI3iAHshosb+CPnao6rJ3s=; b=Mu7Y+QBEWhlsTAAIJ9gf23Y+Jr+iR1meVEY897U5RpiX+bVom8V/OvgeLqXwrqTkPG wSVy/rAxPdUcHHsd45OOtNo6lsmBe4UtyBfHR8RSf3jcarIKcnDHTsbVMdQijVErxwCa Og241wcZYt1QrBUau1DLPTuCT+zEkzn6fY184= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ORqdIHm0XFvXy97E6r2BczB2fHCALTJ1Q3woajl8dFJ1dZBrbxEsD/lBDpmGkqExgl Z6cQHSXvJUnIAb4pvaAaGfvbFBlaNnNEidTkqWguAhfjxj/yWVcF6UbUsbcFU7bNXvz/ 0msYpVvYSpmZzm0PrktZM9EE31kEyf0bEVlm8= Received: by 10.142.142.5 with SMTP id p5mr534221wfd.64.1308674612316; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.70] (99-57-141-118.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.57.141.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n9sm7211915wfk.8.2011.06.21.09.43.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E00CA31.7080403@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:43:29 -0700 From: Khem Raj User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <1308658461.20015.24.camel@rex> <1308663032.20015.29.camel@rex> <4E009D8F.10301@eukrea.com> In-Reply-To: <4E009D8F.10301@eukrea.com> Subject: Re: Multilib Development Update X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:47:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 06/21/2011 06:33 AM, Eric Bénard wrote: > Hi, > > On 21/06/2011 15:30, Richard Purdie wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:02 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>> As I already asked before: what is the benefit having this in embedded >>> systems? >>> >>> If I am doing an embedded system I know the target hardware, and there >>> is no need to have e.g. both 32 and 64 bit libs. >> >> This has been mentioned before but there are embedded use cases where >> the requirement is to have a low overhead OS using 32 bit libs and >> binaries to save memory but the main application (like a database >> server) runs in 64 bit mode with 64 bit libraries so it can take >> advantage of system memory, extra instructions or so forth. This applies >> to mips and powerpc as well as x86. >> >> The implementation is fairly self contained so if you don't want >> multilib, you shouldn't even be aware its there... >> > will that feature allow to build a sdk running on both x86 and amd64 > hosts whatever is the build host ? > thats a different aspect. Although we could make a SDK which could cook up packages which run on multilibs > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core