port-arm/48164: BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL kernel not built with preferred ABI for platform

[dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost]

>Number:         48164
>Category:       port-arm
>Synopsis:       BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL kernel not built with preferred ABI for 
>platform
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-arm-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 29 17:35:00 +0000 2013
>Originator:     Dennis Ferguson
>Release:        6.99.23
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD beagle4.to.akit-ferguson.com 6.99.23 NetBSD 6.99.23 (BEAGLEBONE) #0: Fri 
Aug  2 02:14:24 EDT 2013  
dennis%ts1.to.mistimed.ca@localhost:/usr/obj/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/BEAGLEBONE 
evbarm
>Description:
The ARM MPUs on BeagleBone boards always have hardware floating point so
it is useful to compile -a earmhf systems to run on these.  Unfortunately
a BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL kernel is not built when the system is built for
earmhf; BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL kernels are only built with -a arm builds.

It would be better to build BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL kernels for earmhf,
the preferred architecture, and perhaps for any ABI which might
reasonably be used on that CPU, when asked to.  The attached patch
does for BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL what is done for RPI_INSTALL.

(Note that this fixes my particular problem but doesn't address a
wider issue, that earm builds should run on most (all?) ARM
platforms and should probably be used in preference to the
now-deprecated arm ABI, yet most install kernels are built for
-a arm alone).
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Index: distrib/evbarm/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/evbarm/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 Makefile
--- distrib/evbarm/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile       11 Aug 2013 17:18:11 
-0000      1.22
+++ distrib/evbarm/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile       29 Aug 2013 16:37:25 
-0000
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 # Little endian platforms.
 MDSETTARGETS=          ADI_BRH_INSTALL         ${RAMDISK}      -       \
                        BCM5301X_INSTALL        ${RAMDISK}      -       \
-                       BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL      ${RAMDISK}      -       \
                        CP3100_INSTALL          ${RAMDISK}      -       \
                        GEMINI_INSTALL          ${RAMDISK}      -       \
                        GUMSTIX_INSTALL         ${RAMDISK}      -       \
@@ -36,7 +35,8 @@
     ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "earmv6" || \
     ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "earmv6hf"
 # Little endian (any ABI) platforms.
-MDSETTARGETS+=         RPI_INSTALL             ${SSHRAMDISK}   -
+MDSETTARGETS+=         RPI_INSTALL             ${SSHRAMDISK}   -       \
+                       BEAGLEBONE_INSTALL      ${RAMDISK}      -
 .endif
 
 MDSET_RELEASEDIR=      installation/instkernel