[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH] linux-boundary, u-boot-script-boundary: Set compatible machine

[Eric Nelson]

Hi Otavio,

On 02/19/2014 04:43 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Eric Nelson
> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Otavio,
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/2014 04:12 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>
>>> The compatible machine filter is required to avoid build warnings when
>>> building for other boards, as:
>>>
>>> ,----[ Build warning ]
>>> | WARNING: Unable to get checksum for linux-boundary
>>> |     SRC_URI entry defconfig: file could not be found
>>> `----
>>>
>>> Change-Id: I2f55697fbef29c35b332bfdcc5023c5f70bc9e4b
>>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>>> ---
>>>    recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-script-boundary_git.bb | 2 +-
>>>    recipes-kernel/linux/linux-boundary_3.0.35.bb    | 1 +
>>>    recipes-kernel/linux/linux-boundary_3.10.17.bb   | 3 ++-
>>>    3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-script-boundary_git.bb
>>> b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-script-boundary_git.bb
>>> index 345294e..380a785 100644
>>> --- a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-script-boundary_git.bb
>>> +++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-script-boundary_git.bb
>>> @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
>>>    LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
>>>    LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
>>> "file://Licenses/README;md5=025bf9f768cbcb1a165dbe1a110babfb"
>>> -COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(imx6qsabrelite|nitrogen6x)"
>>>    DEPENDS = "u-boot-mkimage-native"
>>>
>>>    PV = "v2013.10+git${SRCPV}"
>>> @@ -66,3 +65,4 @@ do_install[noexec] = "1"
>>>    do_populate_sysroot[noexec] = "1"
>>>
>>>    PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
>>
>>
>> Note that this is different from the removed line above
>> (Doesn't include imx6qsabrelite).
>>
>> My understanding is also that the clauses in COMPATIBLE_MACHINE are
>> sub-strings or regex's of some sort, such that 'nitrogen6x-lite'
>> is automatically allowed by 'nitrogen6x'.
>
> Not really; In http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/classes/base.bbclass?id=9bb5eb86c12ba6598fe317f449171fdf2310b933
> I added support for it to use the MACHINEOVERRIDE. This is the
> background mechanism used by SOC_FAMILY which does make the connection
> between them ;-)

Thanks for clarifying.

Don't we still need imx6qsabrelite in the clause though?

We keep seeing references that customers aren't able to build
without pulling in PREFERRED_provider for our U-Boot and kernel.

I usually recommend that they just use MACHINE=nitrogen6x,
which also fixes the problem.

Regards,


Eric