[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] arch: define appropriate ld emulation values for the MIPS architecture
Markos Chandras
hwoarang at gentoo.org
Thu Jun 6 09:04:50 UTC 2013
On 6 June 2013 09:57, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Markos Chandras,
>
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:37:41 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
>
>> binutils set el32{l,b}smipn32 as default ABI for MIPS64 as well. The
>> elf64{l,b}tsmip one need to be used only if you want to use the n64
>> ABI. My opinion is that this patch needs to be changed to something
>> like this:
>>
>> +config BR2_LD_TARGET_EMULATION
>> + default "elf64ltsmip" if BR2_mips64el && BR2_MIPS_NABI64
>> + default "elf64btsmip" if BR2_mips64 && BR2_MIPS_NABI64
>> + default "elf32ltsmip" if BR2_mipsel && !BR2_MIPS_NABI32
>> + default "elf32btsmip" if BR2_mips && !BR2_MIPS_NABI32
>> + default "elf32ltsmipn32" if BR2_mipsel && BR2_MIPS_NABI32
>> + default "elf32btsmipn32" if BR2_mips && BR2_MIPS_NABI32
>
> Ok, but I'm not too happy with the fact that the BR2_mips64[el]
> && !BR2_MIPS_NABI64 is not being handled here. And according to
> arch/Config.in.mips, in fact the n32 ABI does not make sense on 32 bits
> BR2_mips and BR2_mipsel.
>
> So, shouldn't this thing be:
>
> config BR2_LD_TARGET_EMULATION
> default "elf64ltsmip" if BR2_mips64el && BR2_MIPS_NABI64
> default "elf64btsmip" if BR2_mips64 && BR2_MIPS_NABI64
> default "elf32ltsmipn32" if BR2_mips64el && BR2_MIPS_NABI32
> default "elf32btsmipn32" if BR2_mips64 && BR2_MIPS_NABI32
> default "elf32ltsmip" if (BR2_mips64el && BR2_MIPS_OABI32) || BR2_mipsel
> default "elf32btsmip" if (BR2_mips64 && BR2_MIPS_OABI32) || BR2_mips
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
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>
Hi Thomas,
Yes I believe this makes sense
Reviewed-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras at imgtec.com>
--
Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
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