[OE-core] "sub" machine types?

[Mike Looijmans]

On 04-09-15 09:35, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> We have some products which differ in bootloaders (u-boot) and kernel device trees only. They use the same kernel and root filesystem.
>
> Does OE have concepts for this? Or any suggestions to realize this without building for many machines?

The way I handled this was to make it so that all machines have the same 
MACHINE_ARCH, but MACHINE has some suffixes. This combines the kernels 
and such. Only problem with that approach is that OE will erase the 
kernel for a previous machine if you build for the next one, so you have 
to copy the resulting images to another location at the end of the build.

For your case, I think you can just use a single MACHINE. You can just 
supply multiple devicetrees, and I think the u-boot recipe recently 
learned to have multiple targets, so you can build multiple bootloaders 
for a single machine too.


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Mike Looijmans