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.

rday

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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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Bonsoir,

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

<snip>

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?

override is the first thing that crossed my mind...

In addition to override, include file (xxx.inc) and use of require/include directive might help wrt. to configuration files.

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Cheers!
Loic

is that what you were after?

override is the first thing that crossed my mind...

Thanks both of you, an additional machine override was exactly what we needed.

Best regards, Olli