On 07/25/2011 11:55 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 7/22/11 1:14 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 07/22/2011 11:00 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> These changes revolve around the idea of tune features. These are 
>>> represented by
>>> 'flag' strings that are included in the TUNE_FEATURES variable.
>>>
>>> Any string included in TUNE_FEATURES should also add a TUNEVALID[<name>] 
>>> entry so
>>> we can know which flags are available in TUNE_FEATURES and have 
>>> documentation about
>>> what the flags do. We will add sanity code to error if flags are listed in
>>> TUNE_FEATURES but are not documented in TUNEVALID.
>>>
>>> A given tune configuration will want to define one or more predetermined 
>>> sets of
>>> _FEATURE flag lists. These are defined in the form 
>>> TUNE_FEATURES_tune-<name>.
>>> For defined tune configuation, <name> should be added to the AVAILTUNE list 
>>> so that
>>> we can determine what tune configurations are available. Flags cannot be 
>>> used in this
>>> case as with TUNEVALID since its useful to be able to build up tune lists 
>>> from other
>>> TUNE_FEATURES_tune-yyy options.
>>>
>>> A given tune configuration may also define PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-<name> 
>>> and
>>> BASE_LIB_tune-<name> to control the multilib location. All options can be 
>>> overridden
>>> by the distro or local user configuration.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
>>
>> As a specific nit, we can't use x86_64 in OVERRIDES (using the normal
>> mechanism need base_contains(...).  Can we switch to calling it amd64
>> ala Debian/Ubuntu?  Aside from that, as I told Mark the other day, this
>> looks good to me.
>>
> 
> I actually prefer "x86-64" I think that is a reasonable compromise between the
> x86_64 naming and the need to not use "_".

That causes other problems, no?  Top of my head would be that deb/ipk
doesn't allow a dash in that field.  Could be mistaken tho...

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation

_______________________________________________
Openembedded-core mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core

Reply via email to