[OE-core] [RESEND][PATCH 1/3] meta: add new qemuarma9 machine definition

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:25:43PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 11 May 2015 at 20:52, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dmitry_eremin at mentor.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Currently qemuarm is limited to 256 Mb of RAM. Sometimes this is too
>> > little to run necessary applications. Add a new arm configuration based
>> > on Versatile Express board, Cortex-A9 CPU, allowing up to 1Gb of RAM.
>> >
>>
>> Not sure I'm keen on oe-core having two almost-identical qemuarm machines.
>> Why not just change the qemuarm machine to use the A9?
>
> Then we should officially drop thumb1 support, because current qemuarm
> builds are quite broken when thumb is enabled and dropping current
> qemuarm or replacing it with A9 variant will prevent oe-core to be
> testable on autobuilder. See
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7717

+1 for updating qemuarm to an ARMv7 CPU.

As for dropping thumb1 support that's probably fine too - although
technically (if someone really did want to keep thumb1 support alive)
I guess nothing prevents testing thumb1 binaries on an ARMv7 CPU?

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