On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... >
What happens if you drop setting TUNE_CCARGS and TUNE_PKGARCH ? > -- > Denys -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
