On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-9-Dropping-Older-ARM > > > > Particularly, ARMv5 and ARMv5E are being dropped (but T and TE variants > > remain) > > > > Are there any concerns from OE community perspective? > > From yocto project perspctive qemuarm which is emulating arm926ejs > with default tune armv5te is used. > so we are right at the trailing edge and wont be affected. However, I > know there were OE users who had > devices using other armv5 or v4 variants > > I have been suggesting to switch qemuarm to use armv7 based board > emulator for few years now. > may be this is the time to make that call for next YP release.
Valid point about qemuarm, but see below. > > At least for binutils we needed this patch even for armv5te: > > http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0007-Add-the-armv5e-architecture-to-binutils.patch > > > > this patch technically required to support one of OEs available tune > values. namely armv5e, we should be able to drop it. $ grep conf/machine meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf require conf/machine/include/qemu.inc require conf/machine/include/tune-arm926ejs.inc #require conf/machine/include/tune-arm1136jf-s.inc $ MACHINE=qemuarm bitbake virtual/kernel -e|grep -E '^DEFAULTTUNE=|^ARMPKGSFX_THUMB=|^TUNE_PKGARCH=|^TUNE_CCARGS=' ARMPKGSFX_THUMB="" DEFAULTTUNE="armv5te" TUNE_CCARGS=" -march=armv5e -marm" TUNE_PKGARCH="armv5e" I have already tried binutils w/o that patch for arm926ejs/armv5te machine and it fails, because as you can see above, -march=armv5e is being passed... -- Denys -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
