Re: [PATCH 0/5] commits for yocto.git tree for x32 work

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 07/13/2011 04:20 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 12:02 -0700, nitin.a.kamble@intel.com wrote:
>> From: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
>>
>> These are commits for yocto tree. I came up with as part of the x32 work. 
>> I think these commits does not belong in the x32 layer and should go
>> in the yocto/oecore tree.
>>
>> The siteinfo.bbclass commit is a hacky way to get the the right siteinfo for 
>> x32 now. In the future a better solution will be implemented for that purpose.
>>
>> The following changes since commit 7354fc9213f27aa1b643dbe88070437f1ee4c063:
>>
>>   insane.bbclass: skip rdepends QA checks for kernel / modules (2011-07-12 15:22:09 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>   git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib nitin/x32
>>   http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=nitin/x32
>>
>> Nitin A Kamble (5):
>>   siteinfo.bbclass: hack for x32
>>   udev-172: add a newer version for newer kernel
>>   runqemu: support qemux32 machine
> 
> These first three need a little more thought. They're fine to as proof
> of concept work but we need to find better ways to integrate them.
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> The siteinfo change is a hack and can't be merged as is. We need to find
> a way to change the target_arch or target_os in such a way we can signal
> to siteinfo to do something different. I also wonder if using i686-linux
> is actually correct for x32 in all cases since x32 does support 64 bit
> data types.

Hopefully this will be easier with the siteinfo dictionary bits we've
got in oe.dev that I'm working on moving to oe-core (world finished
overnight so time to diff the config.log's and kick off some of the
automated tests).

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation