[meta-freescale] yocto SDK for imx6 sabrelite board. (armel vs armhf)

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-08-13 08:15, ss infod wrote:
> Does anyone have any input on this ?
>
> Thanks
> ssinfod
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:02 AM, ssinfod ssinfod <ssinfod at gmail.com <mailto:ssinfod at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I just built an image with SDK for the imx6 sabrelite.  (ie: MACHINE ??= 'imx6qsabrelite')
>     Command: bitbake core-image-full-cmdline -c populate_sdk
>
>     I noticed that the SDK toolchain is based on "gnueabi" instead of "gnueabihf".
>
>     Here is the list from the opt directory:
>     dev at dev-i3:/opt/poky/1.6+snapshot$ ls
>     environment-setup-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
>     site-config-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
>     sysroots
>     version-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
>     dev at dev-i3:/opt/poky/1.6+snapshot$ version-cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
>
>     I thought that the imx6 was a armhf device.
>     Why is the default toolchain using "gnueabi" and not "gnueabihf" for the sabrelite target ?
>
>     Is there a way to change the SDK to use gnueabihf ?
>
>     In fact, I find it scary that the default toolchain is not armhf. What is the reason behind that ?
>     Is it because of the video (GPU/VPU) driver ?

What makes you think it's not HF already?  (hint - the hf is
part of the CPU model cortexa9hf)

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