X32 abi

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Vision

Incorporate toolchain components and other bits (binutils, gcc, glibc, gdb, kernel, linux-libc-headers) into a meta-x32 layer; And added needed infrastructure into the oe-core/yocto tree so that meta-x32 layer can work on top; so that one can build complete images with x32 abi binaries.

Tasks

  • Create x32-layer & populate x32 specific recipes in it - done
    • create gcc-4.7, glibc2-14, kernel-2.6.38.y & other working recipes
  • Get core-image-minimal image building and running - done
    • Fix the recipes which break with x32- Fixed glib-2.0, openssl, udev, busybox
  • Integrate infrastructure pieces of x32 integrated in oe-core/yocto
    • qemux32 change
    • siteinfo changes
      • create a new tripplet for x32,
      • support multiple ABIs per architecture
    • multilib changes will be needed soon
  • assess how much work somehting like X11 and maybe sato would be
  • List all the recipes which fail with x32 toolchain
  • try and find some way of assessing performance