[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add ARM11 MPCore CPU target support
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Dec 27 17:04:37 UTC 2015
Thomas, All,
On 2015-12-23 23:10 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Sergi sent a v2 of his patch... but your suggestion doesn't work. See
> below.
>
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:30:30 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>
> > I wonder if we should not make VFP optional, and change the CPU nme on
> > whether the user has enabled VFP, like:
> >
> > config BR2_arm11mpcore
> > bool "mpcore"
> > [...]
> > select BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV2
> > [...]
> >
> > config BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU
> > [...]
> > default "mpcore" if BR2_arm11mpcore && BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV2
> > default "mpcorenovfp" if BR2_arm11mpcore
> > [...]
>
> This doesn't work, because BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV2 is not a user visible
> option, and there is nothing that selects it in the current Buildroot.
> Therefore the "mpcore" case can never be reached.
>
> Consequently, I am tempted to take v1 of Sergi's patch. Yes, it means
> we don't support the no-VFP variant of ARM11 MPCore, but I'm not sure
> there are lots of ARM11 MPCore without a VFP, so maybe supporting
> mpcorenovfp is not worth the effort for the moment.
>
> Thoughts?
I think that with the newly VFP stuff we committed today, we could
slightly rework that patch and make it work, no? ;-)
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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