Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Andy Polyakov]

>> Are we saying that it absolutely will not support ARM7 thumb mode anymore?
> 
> Nobody is saying that.  We're saying that if the address-space is 16bit, 
> openssl will not work.

16-bit in original request refers to instructions' size, not address
space. But it's actually a misnomer, as Thumb, or at least its ARMv7
flavour, is a *mixture* of 16- and 32-bit instructions. Again, 16- and
32-bit *sized* instructions, not address space. OpenSSL fully supports
AVMv7 Thumb, a.k.a. Thumb2, all the way down to assembly pack. If
compiler doesn't generate Thumb2 code by default, then it might be
necessary to pass additional arch-specific flag[s] as additional
argument to ./Configure. This is discussed in commentary around
linux-armv4 config-line in Configurations/10-main.cf in master/1.1.0 or
Configre in 1.0.2.

As for cross compilation, it's discussed in INSTALL, look for
--cross-compile-prefix.

Well, to be completely accurate, everything said above implies that
compiler is gcc. ARM's compiler was never tested, but nobody complained
so far...

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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Sean Graham]

Viktor,

Thank you so very much for that - I will definitely look into that.


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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Viktor Dukhovni  wrote:

>
> > On Dec 19, 2016, at 2:07 PM, Salz, Rich  wrote:
> >
> >> Are we saying that it absolutely will not support ARM7 thumb mode
> anymore?
> >
> > Nobody is saying that.  We're saying that if the address-space is 16bit,
> openssl will not work.
> >
> >> Wouldn't the generic C-only version (no ASM) support pretty much any
> platform?
> >
> > Probably.
>
> For ARM platforms, especially on resource-constrainted variants, the OP is
> most likelyh better of with mbedTLS:
>
> https://tls.mbed.org/
>
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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Sean Graham]

Hi Guys,

My apologies for the blunt reply -- merely trying to be clear -- and thank
you for your answers!

Would anyone happen to have any reference material that I could look at
which would help me along this line?  I apologize for the newb questions.

Specifically I already have a gcc toolchain with makefile support for this
processor and environment. Is it possible to configure to use this
toolchain in "C only" mode for initial testing?  OpenSSL's custom make
environment is a bit confusing.




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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Salz, Rich  wrote:

> > Are we saying that it absolutely will not support ARM7 thumb mode
> anymore?
>
> Nobody is saying that.  We're saying that if the address-space is 16bit,
> openssl will not work.
>
> > Wouldn't the generic C-only version (no ASM) support pretty much any
> platform?
>
> Probably.
>
>
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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Viktor Dukhovni]

> On Dec 19, 2016, at 2:07 PM, Salz, Rich  wrote:
> 
>> Are we saying that it absolutely will not support ARM7 thumb mode anymore?
> 
> Nobody is saying that.  We're saying that if the address-space is 16bit, 
> openssl will not work.
> 
>> Wouldn't the generic C-only version (no ASM) support pretty much any 
>> platform?
> 
> Probably.

For ARM platforms, especially on resource-constrainted variants, the OP is
most likelyh better of with mbedTLS:

https://tls.mbed.org/

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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Salz, Rich]

> Are we saying that it absolutely will not support ARM7 thumb mode anymore?

Nobody is saying that.  We're saying that if the address-space is 16bit, 
openssl will not work.

> Wouldn't the generic C-only version (no ASM) support pretty much any platform?

Probably.


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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Richard Levitte]

We are saying that we don't support 16-bit platforms and haven't
really done so for a long time.  The C-only version is no exception.

However, the response was that 32- and 64-bit operations and numbers
are supported on that device, so it should still be possible to play
with.

Cheers,
Richard

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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Sean Graham]

Are we saying that it absolutely will not support ARM7 thumb mode anymore?

Wouldn't the generic C-only version (no ASM) support pretty much any
platform?


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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Richard Levitte 
wrote:

> In message <72e690f1b12147588b1dc3e7ee93c...@usma1ex-dag1mb1.msg.corp.
> akamai.com> on Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:22:30 +, "Salz, Rich" <
> rs...@akamai.com> said:
>
> rsalz>
> rsalz> > I have an embedded device which runs an ARM7T armv4t 16-bit thumb
> platform.
> rsalz>
> rsalz> I don't think openssl ever really ran on 16bit.
>
> It certainly doesn't any more.  It did, though, a long time ago.
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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Richard Levitte]

In message 
<72e690f1b12147588b1dc3e7ee93c...@usma1ex-dag1mb1.msg.corp.akamai.com> on Mon, 
19 Dec 2016 18:22:30 +, "Salz, Rich"  said:

rsalz> 
rsalz> > I have an embedded device which runs an ARM7T armv4t 16-bit thumb 
platform.
rsalz> 
rsalz> I don't think openssl ever really ran on 16bit.

It certainly doesn't any more.  It did, though, a long time ago.

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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Sean Graham]

Hi!

Thanks for the reply - I didn't think it actually made the mailing list.

The thumb platform supports all 32-bit operations and even 64-bit numbers,
so I wouldn't expect it to be a problem.

The ./Configure does explicitly talk about thumb mode compiling, so I
imagine there must be support for it.




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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Salz, Rich  wrote:

>
> > I have an embedded device which runs an ARM7T armv4t 16-bit thumb
> platform.
>
> I don't think openssl ever really ran on 16bit.
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Re: [openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Salz, Rich]

> I have an embedded device which runs an ARM7T armv4t 16-bit thumb platform.

I don't think openssl ever really ran on 16bit.
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[openssl-dev] Cross compiling openssl for an old ARM environment - howto?

[Sean Graham]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to do my research, and not sure if this should go into the -dev
or -user mailing list...

I have an embedded device which runs an ARM7T armv4t 16-bit thumb platform.

I'm not finding much info other than the compile guide telling me to modify
$cflags and $ldflags.

The IDE for development is typically done in GUI mode - and I have no clue
how I could compile OpenSSL in this manner. I could try just adding all the
files in proper directory format, but I suspect that there may be problems
down the road.

I'm hopeful that I can just link in the library, it seems to have a built
in arm-elf compiler/linker and has its own internal library files as .elf

I noticed that there are linux-armv4 and linux-elf compilation targets in
./Configure, so I'm hopeful that I can go in this direction, but I'm
struggling to find documentation on how to approach it in this manner. On
windows I can build for windows, but the cygwin environment doesn't appear
to include any compile tools which support linux-armv4.

Alternately is it possible to direct-compile with an IDE? I assume it's not
just as simple as adding all the .c files in...

I'm normally a windows guy :)

Thanks in advance!

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