Re: [PATCH] base.bbclass: add support for SOC_FAMILY in COMPATIBLE_MACHINES

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:47:20PM -0500, Chase Maupin wrote:
> * Add support for using SOC_FAMILY in the COMPATIBLE_MACHINES
>   setting for a recipe.
> * This will allow recipes to work for entire families of
>   devices without having to maintain/update the compatible
>   devices as new devices are added into a family
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin@ti.com>

Acked-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>

While SOC_FAMILY feature is relatively new on its own, it was designed and now 
being extensively used with TI machines and corresponding recipes as an 
effective override - e.g. covering many OMAP3-based machines with a single 
VAR_omap3 = "VAL" expression.

> ---
>  classes/base.bbclass |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/classes/base.bbclass b/classes/base.bbclass
> index 1847491..02c7875 100644
> --- a/classes/base.bbclass
> +++ b/classes/base.bbclass
> @@ -389,7 +389,9 @@ python () {
>              import re
>              this_machine = bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1)
>              if this_machine and not re.match(need_machine, this_machine):
> -                raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with machine %s" % this_machine)
> +                this_soc_family = bb.data.getVar('SOC_FAMILY', d, 1)
> +                if this_soc_family and not re.match(need_machine, this_soc_family):
> +                    raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with machine %s" % this_machine)
>  
>          need_target = bb.data.getVar('COMPATIBLE_TARGET_SYS', d, 1)
>          if need_target:
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
> 
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