[poky] [PATCH 0/5] Fedora 14 Patches

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Saul,

In message <4D00042C.6040403 at linux.intel.com> you wrote:
>
> Thanks for your patches and assistance.
> 
> Not sure if you saw the Release Notes regarding F14 and building 
> make-native first and installing that locally due to problems with F14's 
> make.  See http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467
> and http://www.yoctoproject.org/download/yocto-project-4-0-release-notes

Yes, I saw trhis, but decided it made more sense to fix the broken
Makefiles, especially as this was trivial to do, and in case of eglibc
I could just apply the corresponding commit from OE.

But actually the make-3.82 issues are the smallest of my problems.

I'm trying to build Poky for some PowerPC and ARM architectures
(PPC6xx, PPC4xx, ARM Kirkwood, etc.), and see a number of build
issues.  I started reportung these:
http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572
http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574

Are there any plans to include PPC and ARM targets for example int he
autobuilder testing?

> Yes, this should build you can see the status of master on our build 
> machine at http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org:8010/waterfall we are 
> working on stabilizing the build (meta-toolchain-sdk is failing currently).

What I cannot see (maybe I just don't know where to look) is if the
autobuilder includes any PPC and ARM targets at all, and if so, which
these are.

> > Yes, it is unrelated. It's one of the targets I use for testing.
> >
> You should investigate creating a BSP Layer such as meta-kilauea that 
> you can put your changes into.

Sorry for asking stupid questions - I'm still pretty new to Poky and
haven't really understood some of the concepts: what would be the
benefit (for me, or for the project) of such a layer?  Why not adding
just another machine configuration?

> Thanks again, if you find more problems please let us now and we will 
> pull the changes.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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