[Buildroot] read-edid package - clarifications

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Thu May 3 12:49:06 UTC 2012


Hi Dimitry,

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:32:35AM -0400, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
> Baruch's comment:
> 
> > read-edid can only run on x86 PCs and PowerPC Macs, so it should depend on
> > (BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64 || BR2_powerpc).
> 
> I only tested it on i386, not sure about x86-64, and definitely not on
> powerpc as it has x86 real-mode stuff in it. So perhaps I'll keep i386
> only.

read-edid seems to work perfectly on my x86_64 laptop. So keeping BR2_x86_64 
should be safe.

As for PowerPC, I guess the low level code is selected at build time according 
to the target platform. I haven't looked at the code, though.

baruch

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