[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] arch: do not distinguish revisions of ARM1136JF-S

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Sep 15 22:02:56 UTC 2014


Benoît, Thomas, All,

On 2014-09-15 23:44 +0200, Benoît Thébaudeau spake thusly:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Dear Yann E. MORIN,
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:33:39 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >
> >> > Note that the removal of the two options should not break existing
> >> > full .config, since the hidden option BR2_arm1136jf_s becomes again a
> >> > visible option to select the CPU.
> >>
> >> But it would break a defconfig.
> >
> > Right. But I believe that when we change the default value of an
> > option, we also break a defconfig, and we don't include that as part of
> > the Config.in.legacy handling (but also because it's obviously more
> > complicated).
> >
> >> As suggested on IRC, move the BR2_arm1136jf_s_r1 to Config.legacy, and
> >> have it select BR2_arm1136jf_s, so the user can re-use a defconfig.
> >
> > Hum, why just BR2_arm1136jf_s_r1 and not BR2_arm1136jf_s_r0 ?
> 
> This issue disappears if -march and -mtune are kept and -mcpu removed
> as I suggested.

So, maybe we need something like this:

    https://gist.github.com/aeruder/341565b759822b352dd9

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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