[yocto] is it possible to centralize defns of KERNEL_IMAGETYPE and KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  poking around the conf files and i noticed the following two files
(one from oe-core, obviously) had the following definitions:

$ grep -r KERNEL.*IMAGETYPE.*vmlinux *
meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux"
meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf:KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux.bin"
... snip ppc line ...
meta-yocto/conf/machine/routerstationpro.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux"
meta-yocto/conf/machine/routerstationpro.conf:KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux.bin"
$

  obviously, the above represents the MIPS architecture in both cases
and, unsurprisingly, assign the same values to those variables.

  since both of those files contain the line:

require conf/machine/include/tune-mips32.inc

under what circumstances could you move those common lines down into
the corresponding tune-<arch>.inc file?  i know next to nothing about
MIPS cross-compiling so i have no idea whether that's feasible, or
whether it's reasonable to set default values and let the BSP override
them.

  does this question make any sense?

rday

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