Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Eric, > > are there any reasons (bugs) to avoid using -O2 for ROMCC? > > On 10.12.2008 11:19, Uwe Hermann wrote: >> See patch. >> >> Build-tested and tested on hardware using an ASUS P2B-F, I didn't notice >> any problems. However, if there are any non-obvious reasons to _not_ >> enable optimizations in romcc, please let me know. >> >> Use -O2 and -mcpu=p2 as romcc options for all Intel 440BX boards. >> >> This should hopefully make the "too few registers" error pop up less often. >> >> Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'd prefer to switch all these boards to CAR, but as this patch improves > the current situation, it is > Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > pending an answer from Eric.
I want to say to my knowledge all of the failures in romcc kill the build. I can remember one very rare case where that was not true. -mcpu=p2 should always be safe, and I would not expect any problems with -O2. Eric -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
