On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 06:38:10PM +0200, Dr. Philipp Tomsich wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> Please note that some GCC versions had a code-generation bug
> when -mgeneral-regs-only was used (we hit this for a customer in
> a vendor GCC we maintain):
>       https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64304
> 
> Until everyone upgrades to a recently recent GCC (or until UBoot
> enforces this next January), some people may hit hard-to-reproduce
> issues.
> 
> A better way to suppress SIMD generation would be to use:
>       -march=armv8-a+nosimd

Ah, good to know.  Peng, please re-spin.

> 
> Regards,
> Philipp.
> 
> > On 04 Jul 2017, at 15:32, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:14:07PM +0800, Peng Fan wrote:
> > 
> >> Pass -mgeneral-regs-only to GCC, if not compiler may generate
> >> instructions that use SIMD registers.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Albert Aribaud <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> > 
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Tom

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