[PATCH 1/1] examples: make examples customizable

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 9/22/20 8:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 08:03:49PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>
>> Most users don't need the standalone API examples. Distributions like Suse
>> do not supply libgcc for cross-compiling and we cannot do without on ARMv8
>> for building examples/.
>>
>> Make examples customizable via symbol CONFIG_EXAMPLES. It only defaults to
>> yes to ensure that we compile it on Gitlab CI.
>
> In this case we should not make it "default y" but instead enable it in
> some specific cases that go through CI.  Probably once per arch/
> directory on the QEMU / virtual target for that arch.

default y if ARCH_QEMU would compile it

>
>> Cc: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger at suse.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
>> ---
>> I wonder if we should not completely drop the standalone API. The UEFI API
>> has enough to run a standalone application.
>
> I'm certainly in favor of NOT adding support there for new
> architectures.  I don't believe however we can drop it for existing
> architectures without some fairly large notice, and only then when UEFI
> is available as a reasonable replacement (ARM? Yes.  MIPS?  No idea).
>

UEFI is low endian only.

Best regards

Heinrich