On Fri, 3 May 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

On Fri, 3 May 2019, Westermann, Oliver wrote:

We’ve a product group with different devices, each having their
machine-conf, eg

Device_a

Device_a_mini

Device_b

Device_b_mini <- Upcoming

Device_c <- Upcoming

Since device_a and device_a_mini share a lot of code, for them we
use one of the machine overrides, describing the processor family,
so I use RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_device_a if I just need it for
device_a and RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_am57x for device_a and
device_a_mini.

Now I’m in the situation that device_c will use the same CPU as
device b, so I need something like a “group” of devices for family
b.

How can I define a MACHINE_GROUP_device_b_group = “device_b
device_b_mini” so I can do

RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_device_b_group or
do_install_append_device_b_group()?

i know i did this once upon a time using the MACHINEOVERRIDES
variable to "insert" a machine family into the sequence of machine
definitions. as long as there is (i believe) a strictly hierarchical
grouping of machines you want to define, i'm pretty sure
MACHINEOVERRIDES is what you want.

let me see if i can find where i did that once.

yeah, i'm pretty sure you want MACHINEOVERRIDES:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-MACHINEOVERRIDES

which has a nice example of how to invent a new "machine" category
(qemuall) that subsumes a number of actual qemu machines. is that what
you were after?

rday

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