Am 29.01.2014 19:38, schrieb Stephen Warren: > On 01/29/2014 02:22 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Am 29.01.2014 06:42, schrieb Stephen Warren: >>> The entries in config.mk were needed so that U-Boot could be built >>> with an old version of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's toolchain. Without >>> them, the build would error out with: >>> >>> ...-ld: error: .../libgcc.a(_bswapsi2.o) uses VFP register arguments, >>> u-boot does not >>> >>> However, none of the 3 toolchains in the latest version of their >>> tools.git, nor the Ubuntu/Linaro ARM compilers in at least Ubuntu Quantal >>> or Saucy, need these options set in order to compile a working U-Boot. >>> Hence, remove the options for simplicity. >>> >>> Reported-by: Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> >>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> >>> --- >>> arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/bcm2835/config.mk | 19 ------------------- >>> 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) >>> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/bcm2835/config.mk >> >> No objection against the patch, but why was arch/arm/config.mk using >> -msoft-float in the first place? > > It wasn't. It was filtering -msoft-float out of the compiler flags, > which then left the ABI up to the toolchain default, which was hardfp > for one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's toolchains - the same one that > caused the error messages quoted above unless -msoft-float was removed > from the compiler options.
You seem to have misread my question, it was not about bcm2835/config.mk but about arm/config.mk, which bcm2835 was filtering. I didn't quite get Tom's response about U-Boot being soft-float. It is what I compile it to be, no? If I compile it with an hardfp toolchain such as openSUSE's, without -msoft-float it is going to be hardfp IIUC. softfp is for compatibility with non-VFP hardware I thought, but U-Boot is clearly built with a per-board config, so it's not portable anyway. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot