On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Mark Hatle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/31/18 6:10 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>> The Quark machine was EOL'ed at the end of 2017 and all support for
>> it has now been removed from meta-intel. Drop the associated tuning
>> file from oe-core.
>
> I would rather this remain.  There are still a lot of people using the quark
> based boards as hobbyists... there is little effort to maintain it for now.
>
> (we still have support for ARMv4 for instance, which hasn't really been used 
> in
> new designs in a while..)

Is there ever a case when we would drop old tuning files? Or should
they live on forever?

We dropped GPLv2 recipes from oe-core on the grounds that they are
old, unmaintained and untested. ARMv4 CPU tuning files meet those
criteria too.

>>   
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/commit/?id=5dbc69e339588834317b632119717996584b0d6c
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  meta/conf/machine/include/tune-i586-nlp.inc | 19 -------------------
>>  1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 meta/conf/machine/include/tune-i586-nlp.inc
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-i586-nlp.inc 
>> b/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-i586-nlp.inc
>> deleted file mode 100644
>> index 88e5903..0000000
>> --- a/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-i586-nlp.inc
>> +++ /dev/null
>> @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
>> -# Settings for the GCC(1) cpu-type "quark":
>> -#
>> -#
>> -#
>> -DEFAULTTUNE ?= "i586-nlp-32"
>> -
>> -# Include the previous tune to pull in PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS
>> -require conf/machine/include/x86/arch-x86.inc
>> -
>> -# x86 with no lock prefix
>> -TUNEVALID[i586-nlp] = "IA32 with Lock Prefix omitted"
>> -TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'i586-nlp', ' 
>> -march=i586 -Wa,-momit-lock-prefix=yes', '', d)}"
>> -
>> -# Quark tune feature
>> -AVAILTUNES = "i586-nlp-32"
>> -TUNE_FEATURES_tune-i586-nlp-32 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-x86} i586-nlp"
>> -BASE_LIB_tune-i586-nlp-32 = "lib"
>> -TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-i586-nlp-32 = "i586-nlp-32"
>> -PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-i586-nlp-32 = "i586-nlp-32"
>>
>
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