[Buildroot] [PATCH] Add thumb support to buildroot for the ARM architecture
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Mar 14 08:03:31 UTC 2008
Hi,
Any comments on that ? Are you interested in merging such a patch ?
Thanks,
Thomas
Le Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:08:46 +0100,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> You'll find enclosed in this mail a patch that adds Thumb support for
> buildroot. It allows to generate an interworking-enabled toolchain,
> with an uClibc compiled in ARM mode, and then to compile userspace
> applications in Thumb mode.
>
> More details are available in the patch description.
>
> Of course, your comments, reviews and suggestions are welcome!
>
> Thanks for developing such a great tool,
>
> Sincerly,
>
> Thomas
>
> ---
> Add thumb support to buildroot for the ARM architecture
>
> The Thumb instruction set is encoded on 16 bits opcode instead of 32
> bits opcode for the regular ARM instruction set. It generally allows
> for greater code density, leading to reduced code size, which is nice
> on memory-constrained embedded systems.
>
> Currently, uClibc cannot be fully compiled using the Thumb instruction
> set. Therefore, this patch still compile uClibc in regular ARM mode,
> but allows to enable interworking support for the
> toolchain. Interworking allows Thumb code to call ARM code and
> vice-versa, allowing a mixed Thumb/ARM userspace.
>
> Enabling interworking at the toolchain level is done using the
> BR2_INTERWORKING_SUPPORT option, added by the patch. When enabled, it
> adds --enable-interwork to the binutils and gcc configure options,
> adds -mthumb-interwork to the CFLAGS during uClibc compilation, and
> enables the USE_BX config option of uClibc (bx is an ARM instruction
> that allows to switch between ARM and Thumb mode).
>
> Once interworking is enabled, it is then possible to compile the
> userspace applications in Thumb mode. This is what the new
> BR2_THUMB_BINARIES option allows, by adding -mthumb to the CFLAGS used
> during the compilation of userspace applications.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>
> ---
> Config.in | 8 ++++++++
> package/Makefile.in | 4 ++++
> toolchain/Config.in.2 | 12 ++++++++++++
> toolchain/binutils/binutils.mk | 5 +++++
> toolchain/gcc/Makefile.in | 4 ++++
> toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk | 7 +++++++
> 6 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
>
> Index: buildroot.new/Config.in
> ===================================================================
> --- buildroot.new.orig/Config.in
> +++ buildroot.new/Config.in
> @@ -223,6 +223,14 @@
>
> WARNING: This is highly experimental at the moment.
>
> +config BR2_THUMB_BINARIES
> + bool "generate Thumb binaries"
> + default n
> + depends on BR2_INTERWORKING_SUPPORT
> + help
> + Compile binaries in Thumb mode. Only valid for ARM
> + architecture.
> +
> config BR2_HAVE_MANPAGES
> bool "manpages on the target"
> default n
> Index: buildroot.new/package/Makefile.in
> ===================================================================
> --- buildroot.new.orig/package/Makefile.in
> +++ buildroot.new/package/Makefile.in
> @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
> TARGET_CFLAGS+=-msoft-float
> endif
>
> +ifeq ($(BR2_THUMB_BINARIES),y)
> +TARGET_CFLAGS+=-mthumb
> +endif
> +
> # enable VIS for v9a and v9b
> ifeq ($(findstring
> y,$(BR2_sparc_v9a)$(BR2_sparc64_v9a)$(BR2_sparc_v9b)$(BR2_sparc64_v9b)),y)
> TARGET_CFLAGS+=-mvis Index: buildroot.new/toolchain/Config.in.2
> ===================================================================
> --- buildroot.new.orig/toolchain/Config.in.2
> +++ buildroot.new/toolchain/Config.in.2
> @@ -61,6 +61,18 @@
> # bool "Use softfp"
> # default n
>
> +config BR2_INTERWORKING_SUPPORT
> + bool "Enable interworking support"
> + default n
> + depends on BR2_arm || BR2_armeb
> + depends on !BR2_generic_arm && !BR2_arm610 && !BR2_arm710
> + help
> + Interworking allows Thumb userspace binaries to be linked
> + against the C standard library compiled in ARM mode.
> +
> + This is only possible on Thumb-aware architectures, i.e not
> + Generic ARM, ARM610 or ARM710.
> +
> config BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION
> string "Target Optimizations"
> default "-Os -pipe"
> Index: buildroot.new/toolchain/binutils/binutils.mk
> ===================================================================
> --- buildroot.new.orig/toolchain/binutils/binutils.mk
> +++ buildroot.new/toolchain/binutils/binutils.mk
> @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@
> BINUTILS_TARGET_CONFIG_OPTIONS+=--with-mpfr="$(MPFR_TARGET_DIR)"
> endif
>
> +ifeq ($(BR2_INTERWORKING_SUPPORT),y)
> +INTERWORKING_CONFIG_OPTION=--enable-interwork
> +endif
> +
> BINUTILS_OFFICIAL_VERSION:=$(BINUTILS_VERSION)$(VENDOR_SUFFIX)$(VENDOR_BINUTILS_RELEASE)
> ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT),y)
> BINUTILS_PATCH_DIR:=toolchain/binutils/$(BINUTILS_VERSION)
> @@ -112,6 +116,7 @@
> --disable-werror \
> $(SOFT_FLOAT_CONFIG_OPTION) \
> $(EXTRA_BINUTILS_CONFIG_OPTIONS) \
> + $(INTERWORKING_CONFIG_OPTION) \
> )
> touch $@
>
> Index: buildroot.new/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.in
> ===================================================================
> --- buildroot.new.orig/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.in
> +++ buildroot.new/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.in
> @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@
> endif
> endif
>
> +ifeq ($(BR2_INTERWORKING_SUPPORT),y)
> +EXTRA_GCC_CONFIG_OPTIONS+=--enable-interwork
> +endif
> +
> # AVR32 GCC configuration
> ifeq ($(strip $(BR2_avr32)),y)
> EXTRA_GCC_CONFIG_OPTIONS+=--disable-libmudflap
> Index: buildroot.new/toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk
> ===================================================================
> --- buildroot.new.orig/toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk
> +++ buildroot.new/toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk
> @@ -322,6 +322,13 @@
> else
> $(SED) 's,^.*UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR.*,UCLIBC_HAS_WCHAR=n,g'
> $(UCLIBC_DIR)/.oldconfig endif
> +ifeq ($(BR2_INTERWORKING_SUPPORT),y)
> + $(SED) 's,^.*USE_BX.*,USE_BX=y,g' $(UCLIBC_DIR)/.oldconfig
> + $(SED)
> 's,^.*UCLIBC_EXTRA_CFLAGS.*,UCLIBC_EXTRA_CFLAGS="-mthumb-interwork",g'
> $(UCLIBC_DIR)/.oldconfig +else +
> + $(SED) 's,^.*USE_BX.*,USE_BX=n,g' $(UCLIBC_DIR)/.oldconfig
> +endif
> ifeq ($(BR2_UCLIBC_PROGRAM_INVOCATION),y)
> $(SED)
> 's,^.*UCLIBC_HAS_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME.*,UCLIBC_HAS_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME=y,g'
> $(UCLIBC_DIR)/.oldconfig else
>
>
--
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