[meta-ti] [PATCH 1/3] SOC_FAMILY: add to MACHINE_OVERRIDES locally

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 20:01 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 3 mrt. 2012, om 14:55 heeft Denys Dmytriyenko het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 11:53:06AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> This breaks the hard dependency on Angstrom for getting a sane set of 
> >> recipes.
> >> 
> >> The variable name is kept the same and the actual code moved from 
> >> angstrom.inc to soc-family.inc to make it clear what it is doing and how.
> > 
> > Ah, nice workaround until/if it gets accepted upstream to OE-Core! Thanks, 
> > Koen.
> 
> The consensus at ELC was that these kind of tweaks should be done at
> the machine level now that we have MACHINE_OVERRIDES seperated out. If
> a lot of BSPs are going to use SOC_FAMILY we can try to push it into
> OE-core again. But currently we wouldn't stand a chance.

MACHINE_OVERRIDES was added to give people a generic way of extending
overrides from a machine context. This works for various situations such
as the "x86" override that made more sense than the previous 386|486|
586|xxx madness as well as providing a mechanism for SOC_FAMILY and
other uses.

I guess the .inc file could make it into OE-Core but I don't see much
value in adding SOC_FAMILY directly as a standard variable at this
point.

Cheers,

Richard