On 10.12.2008 14:32, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for confirming this! Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
