-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15-10-10 17:41, Chris Larson wrote: > From: Chris Larson <chris_lar...@mentor.com> > > Given the current implementation of OVERRIDES in bitbake, the variable is > expected to contain elements in the order least specific to most specific, > however, our current usage of it does not match that. As one example, "local" > is supposed to always be the most specific override, yet currently it's the > least specific. As another example, currently the target architecture is seen > as more specific than the machine, which is also clearly wrong. > > Big thanks to Chase Maupin for investigating and identifying this long > standing issue. > > It becomes clear that a reversal of the current value will bring us to a more > sane behavior, and avoids the need for the dual overrides hack mentioned in > the comments, so this implements this reversal, and drops the unnecessary and > confusing comments. > > This also introduces a MACHINE_OVERRIDES variable as a generic mechanism to > inject overrides elements which are more specific than the distro but less > specific than the machine, which is where things like MACHINE_CLASS or > SOC_FAMILY or the like would go. This variable is *space* separated, to make > it easier and more convenient to assemble the variable incrementally. > > Reported-by: Chase Maupin <chase.mau...@ti.com> > Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <chris_lar...@mentor.com>
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