Question about ODROID target about box86 HOT 6 CLOSED

Yeah, you can update, that sounds reasonable to me.

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The ODROID target was the XU4. You can do a PR with more odroid target if you want.

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Does it make sense to name the target ODROIDXU4 then, leaving ODROID as alias for backwards compatibility?

Since Cortex-A9 is older than the other 3 CPUs, it is probably a feasible minimal compatible flag. However, for the XU4, gcc 4.9 added support for e.g. -mcpu=cortex-a15.cortex-a7 to optimise for this big.LITTLE combinations. If you do not want to keep support for older gcc versions, shall I update it? I can test build and binary as well here.

For a Odroid C1 target, I first need to find someone who is able and open to test the binary, since I have no C1, just provide install options for them 🙂.

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PR open for the first part: #970

I decided to not leave the ODROID target for backwards compatibility. IMO it is better when everyone directly recognises this change and selects the appropriate new target instead. Quite possible that some used the ODROID target, while others would have matched better, and as an alias for ODROIDXU4, when now -mcpu=cortex-a15.cortex-a7 is used, it will work even less well or not at all on other ODROID SBCs. However, if you wish to keep the ODROID target, as alias or with its old options, I will of course re-add it.

I'll add an ODROID-C1 target with a dedicated PR.

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Can this ticket be closed now?

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Yes can be closed. I'll add another ODROID-C1 target, but that is unrelated.

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