[yocto] toolchain queries

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Khem Raj wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> 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
> 
> this means ABI change especially due to double formats. This should be
> doable in machine.conf
> files or tune files.

how so?  What can I set in there that would actually get passed into gcc's configure (not really seeing anything).  Also what exactly do you mean by a machine.conf

>> * e5500 (64-bit embedded ppc)
> 
> this is new I guess. Its like adding a new arch to OE. See around
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-September/024661.html
> is roughly what can be helpful in getting ppc64 going

Thanks, will take a look at that.

- k