Op 6 apr 2011, om 20:25 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven: > On 04/06/2011 01:47 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >> 2011/4/5 Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org>: >> >> [...] >>> >>> Does this make sense to everyone, are there any questions/ objections/ >>> concerns/ things I've missed? >> >> I think most embedded systems would only use one lib. To take your >> lib/lib64 example: >> If I am developing for an embedded system I know whether it will run >> as 32 or 64 bit, so there is no need to have both. > > What about the case of new 64bit hardware and legacy software that's > still 32bit? This is a problem that embedded systems have and OE needs > to support > >> multilib has its merits when it comes to supporting multiple hardware >> systems. >> However as in the embedded world one is typically targeting a specific >> hardware configuration. >> (actually I don't recall having seen requests for multilib on the ML >> before, although I could have missed it). > > You missed it :) Roman Khimov posted a very basic thing years ago for > dealing with the x86/x86_64 problem.
And Graeme fixed another batch of multilib problems way back at OEDEM in Berlin (2006?). So it has been on the table for a while :) regards, Koen _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
