From: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a new global MACHINE_ENDIAN variable
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:01:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B4EDCD.1060609@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B40165.6000506@whitby.id.au>
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Rod Whitby schreef:
> There exist machines (like the ixp4xx range of processors) which can be
> run in either little-endian or big-endian mode, and both modes are
> supported by OE.
>
> I propose a new "MACHINE_ENDIAN" (naming courtesy of RP) variable to do
> this selection (i.e. for machines that support both, the build can be
> selected in local.conf).
No, that's just needles confusion, just make a .inc file (like ixp4xx.inc) that has the
common bits and 2 machine files that set up the appropriate endiannes stuff. That way you
can use machine overrides to configure stuff instead of putting more anonymous python
functions in the metadata.
regards,
Koen "stop adding MAGIC_VARs" Kooi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-22 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-22 0:12 RFC: Adding a new global MACHINE_ENDIAN variable Rod Whitby
2007-01-22 17:01 ` Koen Kooi [this message]
2007-01-22 19:14 ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-22 20:03 ` Koen Kooi
2007-01-23 0:10 ` Deprecating ixp4xx, nslu2 in favour of endian-specific machine settings (Was: RFC on MACHINE_ENDIAN) Rod Whitby
2007-01-23 5:40 ` Removal of the proprietary Intel IXP ethernet driver (ixp4{00, 25}-eth, ixp-osal, ixp4xx-csr) from OE Rod Whitby
2007-01-23 19:23 ` Robert Wörle
2007-01-23 19:56 ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-25 3:15 ` RFC: customisable pivot-root functionality Rod Whitby
2007-01-25 3:53 ` Justin Patrin
2007-01-25 12:45 ` Cliff Brake
2007-01-25 16:54 ` Hans Henry von Tresckow
2009-04-20 5:52 ` Removal of the proprietary Intel IXP ethernet driver (ixp4{00, 25}-eth, ixp-osal, ixp4xx-csr) from OE Rod Whitby
2007-01-23 11:13 ` Deprecating ixp4xx, nslu2 in favour of endian-specific machine settings (Was: RFC on MACHINE_ENDIAN) Richard Purdie
2007-01-23 19:37 ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-23 20:34 ` Richard Purdie
2007-01-24 6:41 ` SITEINFO_ENDIAN(N)ESS (NN, not N) Rod Whitby
2007-01-24 6:44 ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-28 12:41 ` Deprecating ixp4xx, nslu2 in favour of endian-specific machine settings (Was: RFC on MACHINE_ENDIAN) Rod Whitby
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