[yocto] toolchain queries

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 08:33 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 
>>> Where is the best place to ask questions and try and get support for adding some toolchain variations in?
>>> 
>>> I'm wanting to add support in for a few different flavors of PPC that are not currently supported:
>>> 
>>> * e500v2 (gcc needs --enable-e500_double, eglibc 
>>> * e5500 (64-bit embedded ppc)
>>> * e5500 - multilib support for 32/64-bit
>>> 
>> 
>> The other reason I ask is the recipes today don't seem to use (or allow for use of) --with-cpu.
>> 
>> Wondering who is the expect on these recipes to discuss such issues with.
> 
> The tune files (conf/machine/include/tune*) usually set the march and
> mcpu options which are added to CFLAGS. Does that provide the
> functionality you're looking for?
> 

No, I'm dealing with different configure issues for gcc, eglibc for these targets:

PPC e500v2
PPC e5500 (64-bit, multilib)

- k