On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On 07/21/2011 11:20 AM, Khem Raj wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Tom Rini <tom_r...@mentor.com> wrote: >>> On 07/21/2011 09:48 AM, Khem Raj wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Kumar Gala <ga...@kernel.crashing.org> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Why do we have a split between powerpc-common & powerpc-linux? >>>>> >>>>> I assume powerpc-linux is used and picked up for powerpc-linux-uclibc in >>>>> addition to normal powerpc-linux. >>>>> >>>>> I'm looking at adding powerpc64 support and powerpc-common is all kinda >>>>> of broken for it. I'd like to just merge powerpc-common & powerpc-linux >>>>> (as powerpc-linux 32-bit) for now and start a new powerpc-common that >>>>> refactors 32/64 commonalities. >>>>> >>>>> Unless someone says otherwise about the meaning of these files. >>>> >>>> powerpc-common is shared between uclibc and eglibc at present and may >>>> be shared with other OSes that may build with OE in future. >>>> traditionally powerpc-common implicitly implied 32bit so I am not >>>> surprised if its broken for ppc64. You could add powerpc64-common >>>> and leave 32bit alone. See how its done for mips64 in oe.dev >>>> >>>> http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/site >>> >>> I'd argue that what we do for mips today is also wrong and I'm going to >>> try and fix it as soon as I can. In these cases we should have: >>> common, common-linux, common-$libc, mips-common, mips-linux, >>> mips64-linux and if needed mips64-linux-libc. >> >> yes that structure would be desirable. It would need a bit of overhaul >> and lot of testing. >> since you have something setup for your import from oe stuff for same. >> may be you can take a stab at it > > Yeah, it's on my list now that the first step is really in :) I hope to > get the obvious bits rebased and tested and posted today at least, and > then get to finishing the obvious bits and start trying the less obvious > ones. Glad you fixed uclibc, btw, that had me scratching my head on a > few things we do today :)
Started an initial attempt at this for PPC and posted some RFC patches. Take a look and we can go from there. - k _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
