[meta-ti] DSP packages for OMAP3

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:04:43PM -0700, Ash Charles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was stepping through the meta-ti layer to assess support for the DSP
> on OMAP3[57].
> 
> Two questions:
> 1.  It looks like there are more recent versions of the code
> generation tools [1] (either 7.6.0 or 7.4.8) than 7.2.7.  Is there any
> reason not to use these newer version? (Apologies if this is a dumb
> question---I just don't know enough about the DSP ecosystem)
> 
> 2. It seems like ti-dsplink and ti-linuxutils (among others I suspect)
> have hardcoded compiler paths and flags that supersede those provided
> by bitbake.  This is causing me headaches when trying to build with a
> hardfp compiler (as recent SGX binaries are provided in hardfp mode).
> Is there a technical limitation to compiling DSP support code with a
> hard float compiler?  I don't mind taking a stab at making the
> makefiles a little more flexible but if the code itself relies on
> non-hardfp, I'll need to rethink.

Unfortunately, DSP support in meta-ti is not maintained currently, as 
explained in the corresponding README file.

-- 
Denys