[yocto] [OE-core] bring mipsel support (little endian mode)

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Dennis.Yxun <dennis.yxun at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI ALL:
>   Sorry for crossing post, but I'm quite new here, so if I did
> something wrong, please point me the right direction. thanks
>   I'm using oe-core, and notice that mipsel support(o32, little
> endian mode) is missing (current available choose is: qemumips,
> qemumips64, qemumips64el).
>   So, here I'm trying to bring up qemumipsel support . My first
> attempt would just make qemumipsel work,
> further would make it running on real board, thus maybe mips4kec,
> mips24k, mips74k chips.
>   What I achieved here current:
>  1) toolchain/basic libs, utilities should works ,only one changes,
> see my patch [a]
>   for mipsel we also have to filter out -march=mips32, previously we
> only handle mips (the big endian?)
>   don't have the error message now, but if you request, I can provide.
>  2) attempt to  compile kernel to support qemumipsel, unfortunately it fail.
> The point here is linux-yocto doesn't support qemumipsel, but merely
> support those other three mips arches,
> So here is my attempt patch [b], and the fail log [c], complied out
> binary still big endian.
>
>   Could my patch [a] be accepted? or should I send with another mail
> for better review?
>   Is it better to request a ticket in yocto's bugzilla? or just
> report here, I'm not quite sure.
>
> Dennis
>
> [a] 0001-eglibc-support-mipsel-little-endian-filter-out-march.patch

This patch is appropriate for OE-Core, I will add it to my tree.

> [b] 0002-qemu-attempt-to-add-mipsel-little-endian-support-but.patch

This looks good to me but I will leave it to Bruce to decide.

> [c] build_log.txt
> [d] log.do_package
>
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