[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 08/33] imx-base: Add mx7 support to U-Boot, MACHINE filter and DEFAULT_TUNE

[Max Krummenacher]

Hi Lauren

Am Samstag, den 11.07.2015, 09:46 -0500 schrieb Lauren Post:
> Add the mx7 settings for U-boot, MACHINE and DEFAULT_TUNE.
> 
> MX7 is a new i.MX SoC Family created with the 3.14.28-7D_alpha release
> and upstreamed with the 3.14.38-6QP_beta release.
> 
> i.MX 7Dual is a CortexA7 ARM core so requires different DEFAULT_TUNE
> however it does build with the cortexa9 but not as optimized as it is with
> the cortexa7 toolchain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lauren Post <lauren.post at freescale.com>
> ---
>  conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
> index f64ba6b..83b771b 100644
> --- a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
> +++ b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
> @@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = "kernel-modules"
>  # DEFAULTTUNE_mx6 ?= "cortexa9t-neon"
>  # handled by hardware
>  DEFAULTTUNE_mx6 ?= "cortexa9thf-neon"
> +DEFAULTTUNE_mx7 ?= "cortexa7hf-neon"
>  

Is there a reason to disallow thumb?
the t in "cortexa9thf-neon" has recently be added.
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-May/014042.html


Regards
Max