Ar71xx legacy-devices.mk and generic.mk purpose

[Zoha]

I am playing with Arduino Yùn at the moment.

I have been wondering what is the purpose of target/linux/ar71xx/legacy-devices.mk and target/linux/ar71xx/generic.mk ?

Wouldn't it be good to import this patch then : https://github.com/nxhack/openwrt-yun-build-extra/blob/master/patches/LEDE-YUN-Legacy2Generic.patch ?

Documentation about that would be welcome as there is no comments in the source tree. I have quite a hard time to understand how things work.

[pepe2k]

@Zoha

I have been wondering what is the purpose of target/linux/ar71xx/legacy-devices.mk and target/linux/ar71xx/generic.mk ?

It's part of the old building code. At some point we should get rid of that and migrate all boards to the new building code.

@Zoha

Wouldn't it be good to import this patch then : https://github.com/nxhack/openwrt-yun-build-extra/blob/master/patches/LEDE-YUN-Legacy2Generic.patch ?

It looks OK (excluding that long device name...). You can send it as PR or patch.

[camille-hack]

@pepe2k

It's part of the old building code. At some point we should get rid of that and migrate all boards to the new building code.

Did I understood right: legacy-devices.mk and legacy.mk are the old building code and generik.mk is the new building code ?

PS: I lost my "Zoha" account and had to create a new one. So Zoha==camille-hack

[pepe2k]

@camille-hack

Did I understood right: legacy-devices.mk and legacy.mk are the old building code and generik.mk is the new building code ?

More or less, yes.