[yocto] ppc e500v2 support?

[Mark Hatle]

On 11/3/10 10:34 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add my powerpc board to yocto (as a test). This board
> mpc8536ds has an e500v2 core. It works under OE (MACHINE =
> "calamari"). but gcc-cross-initial fails in do_compile when it tries
> to run configure for the libgcc subdir.
> The problem is similar to http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/2026/

At this point we have no added any e500 support to Poky.

It would certainly be interesting to me to add/enable e500 support, as well as 
other spe optimizations that eglibc might provide.

--Mark

> Basically gcc-cross-initial fails building libgcc, config.log has:
> cc1: error: not configured for ABI: 'spe'
>
> I feel this is related to the generation of the host triplet.
> OE has conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain.inc which has a func
> compute_os_portion_of_target_triplet
> this one adds gnuspe to the host triplet (and maybe some other things).
>
> poky does not give me that part of the triplet.
>
> Anyone an idea what is wrong (I can provide machine description etc,
> but it is also all in the OE git).
>
> Best regards, Frans
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