On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:50 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 22:02 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > > COMPATIBLE_MACHINES is not easily extended due to > > its regex syntax: "(machine_a|machine_b)", making it difficult to extend the > > u-boot recipe in bbappend files without resorting to machine specific > > overrides. > > Not that I have an objection to your patch, but I think this remark > about COMPATIBLE_MACHINE is wrong. AFAIK, you can disregard the > parenthesis and just splice extra alternates on the end, viz: > > COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_append = "|mymachine" > > so there oughtn't to be any reason, in general, for .bbappends to have a > hard time extending that field.
u-boot in OE-Core would need something like COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "" which makes this harder. Its usually seem to work out easier to just do: COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_mymachine = "mymachine" which avoids several potential issues. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
