-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23-06-10 10:53, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > 2010/6/20 Frans Meulenbroeks <[email protected]>: >> 2010/6/20 Koen Kooi <[email protected]>: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 20-06-10 11:58, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm about to complete bringing a new architecture (nios2 with mmu) and >>>> machine (cyclone III FPGA starter kit, and maybe also the Nios2 >>>> Embeddeded Evaluation Kit (aka neek)) to oe. >>>> Is there a policy on on the process how to do this. >>> >>> Have a look at the nios2 patches Leon sent last december, they were >>> reviewed on this list, but not committed. >> >> Koen, thanks for reminding me the look at the review comments. >> >> I'm well aware of the work of Leon and Walter (and they are well aware >> of my work). >> Note that what Leon posted was for a non-mmu nios2 core, whereas the >> changes I have is for an mmu core. >> >> Triggered by Koens reminder I revisited the review comments. Actually >> none but one are applicable for me. >> The one that is applicable is the one about pinning versions in >> machine descriptions. >> I have also done that, as there are simply no other versions of >> binutils and gcc that can be used by this hardware. >> Also I don't feel empowered to make changes in distribution specific files. >> >> The only alternative way that I can think of is doing something like: >> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_nios2 = "1" in the recipes I need. >> No idea if that overrules the distro settings or not, but I can give >> it a try later today. > > Well, tried it and apparently a distro pin has priority over a > DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_nios2 in the recipe. > Guess I'll have to do the pinning the the machine description as > described above.
NO! Machines *never* pin versions, that's what distros and to a lesser extent recipes are for. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMIdLYMkyGM64RGpERAlPnAKCdByYCC57ozSFv9XUpFP+F7oujgwCbBVC3 yqZUWZMlMXNv5b9ZuQwu6sI= =A9rs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
