[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH][ARM] Rationalize ARM compiler options

Peter Pearse peter.pearse at arm.com
Wed Feb 13 16:55:00 CET 2008


Signed-off-by: Peter Pearse <peter.pearse at arm.com>
---
diff --git a/cpu/arm1136/config.mk b/cpu/arm1136/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 6ab0dd3..5c64aa7
--- a/cpu/arm1136/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/arm1136/config.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <gj at denx.de>
 #
+#
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
 #
@@ -20,16 +21,15 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
-# Make ARMv5 to allow more compilers to work, even though its v6.
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv5
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv6
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
 # =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mno-thumb-interwork,)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
+
diff --git a/cpu/arm720t/config.mk b/cpu/arm720t/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 641b91c..2da312e
--- a/cpu/arm720t/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/arm720t/config.mk
@@ -21,15 +21,15 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
-
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4 -mtune=arm7tdmi
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4t
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
 # =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
+
diff --git a/cpu/arm920t/config.mk b/cpu/arm920t/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 8db4adb..b5605b3
--- a/cpu/arm920t/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/arm920t/config.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <gj at denx.de>
 #
+#
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
 #
@@ -20,15 +21,15 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
-
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4t
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
 # =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
+
diff --git a/cpu/arm925t/config.mk b/cpu/arm925t/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 8db4adb..b5605b3
--- a/cpu/arm925t/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/arm925t/config.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <gj at denx.de>
 #
+#
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
 #
@@ -20,15 +21,15 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
-
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4t
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
 # =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
+
diff --git a/cpu/arm926ejs/config.mk b/cpu/arm926ejs/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 8db4adb..7f531f8
--- a/cpu/arm926ejs/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/arm926ejs/config.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <gj at denx.de>
 #
+#
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
 #
@@ -20,15 +21,15 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
-
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv5te
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
 # =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
+
diff --git a/cpu/arm946es/config.mk b/cpu/arm946es/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 81ca288..7f531f8
--- a/cpu/arm946es/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/arm946es/config.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <gj at denx.de>
 #
+#
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
 #
@@ -20,8 +21,15 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	 -msoft-float
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv5te
+# =========================================================================
+# Supply options according to compiler version
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
 
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=  -march=armv4
diff --git a/cpu/arm_intcm/config.mk b/cpu/arm_intcm/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 81ca288..6766074
--- a/cpu/arm_intcm/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/arm_intcm/config.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <gj at denx.de>
 #
+#
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
 #
@@ -20,8 +21,15 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
+# This cpu intended for unknown cpu - use lowest common architecture
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4
+# =========================================================================
+# Supply options according to compiler version
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	 -msoft-float
-
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=  -march=armv4
diff --git a/cpu/ixp/config.mk b/cpu/ixp/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index a71a20b..da67bae
--- a/cpu/ixp/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/ixp/config.mk
@@ -21,17 +21,18 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
-
-BIG_ENDIAN = y
-
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float -mbig-endian
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 -mbig-endian
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -mbig-endian -march=armv5te -mtune=strongarm1100
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
 # =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
+
+BIG_ENDIAN = y
+
+
diff --git a/cpu/lh7a40x/config.mk b/cpu/lh7a40x/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 10e755b..dfa6dfd
--- a/cpu/lh7a40x/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/lh7a40x/config.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <gj at denx.de>
 #
+#
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
 #
@@ -20,15 +21,14 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
-
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
-# ========================================================================
+# =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
diff --git a/cpu/pxa/config.mk b/cpu/pxa/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index f0b86b7..bd9ef17
--- a/cpu/pxa/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/pxa/config.mk
@@ -21,15 +21,14 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
-
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
-# ========================================================================
+# =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
diff --git a/cpu/s3c44b0/config.mk b/cpu/s3c44b0/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 6dc9c46..8e77969
--- a/cpu/s3c44b0/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/s3c44b0/config.mk
@@ -21,15 +21,14 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
-
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4 -mtune=arm7tdmi -msoft-float
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4 -mtune=arm7tdmi
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
-# ========================================================================
+# =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
diff --git a/cpu/sa1100/config.mk b/cpu/sa1100/config.mk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 5be7dfb..cf9c296
--- a/cpu/sa1100/config.mk
+++ b/cpu/sa1100/config.mk
@@ -21,15 +21,14 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
-
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 \
-	-msoft-float
+# =========================================================================
+# See doc/README.ARM.config.mk for a justification of the ARM specific options
+# =========================================================================
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm1100
 # =========================================================================
-#
 # Supply options according to compiler version
-#
-# ========================================================================
+# =========================================================================
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,))
diff --git a/doc/README.ARM.config.mk b/doc/README.ARM.config.mk
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d9d35e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/README.ARM.config.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+The GNU compiler ARM specific options in the ARM cpu directory config.mk files
+are intended to be general enough to apply for all boards with those cpus,
+when compiled with the latest ELDK arm toolchains.
+
+Individual boards and/or blocks of code may have their performance and/or
+memory footprint improved by using more particular combinations of options
+and/or toolchains. You are encouraged to submit evidence of such
+improvements to u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net. However, it is
+unlikely that such individual settings will be incorporated into the main
+code-tree. This file might provide a good place to document them - see
+"Board and/or toolchain specific optimizations" below.
+
+The make function cc-option imported from the linux kernel to u-boot/config.mk
+is used to
+a)	check whether a particular option is supported by the toolchain
+b)	provide an alternative to unsupported options, where applicable.
+
+-march indicates the architecture implemented by the processor core.
+
+The gcc-3.4.6 manual has:-
+
+-mapcs-32
+	Generate code for a processor running with a 32-bit program counter,
+	and conforming to the function calling standards for the APCS
+	32-bit option.
+	This flag is deprecated.
+	Future releases of GCC will make this flag unconditional.
+-malignment-traps
+	Generate code that will not trap if the MMU has alignment traps
+	enabled. On ARM architectures prior to ARMv4, there were no
+	instructions to	access half-word objects stored in memory. However,
+	when reading from memory a feature of the ARM architecture allows a
+	word load to be used, even if the address is unaligned, and the
+	processor core will rotate the data as it is being loaded.
+	This option tells the compiler that such misaligned accesses will cause
+	a MMU trap and that it should instead synthesize the access as a series
+	of byte accesses. The compiler can still use word accesses to load
+	half-word data if it knows that the address is aligned to a word
+	boundary.
+	This option has no effect when compiling for ARM architecture 4 or
+	later, since these processors have instructions to directly access
+	half-word objects in memory.
+	-mshort-load-bytes
+
+The gcc-2.9.53 manual has:-
+
+-mshort-load-bytes
+	Do not try to load half-words (eg `short's) by loading a word from an
+	unaligned address. For some targets the MMU is configured to trap
+	unaligned loads; use this option to generate code that is safe in
+	these environments.
+
+Please note:-
+a)	U-Boot is intended to be statically linked binary.
+	Hence toolchains which make linux kernel calls e.g. to raise() should
+	not be used.
+b)	U-Boot contains no floating point code, hence the -msoft-float option
+	is not valid.
+c)	-ffixed-r8 will not allow access to the gd pointer in ARM FIQ mode
+	since FIQ mode has it's own r8.
+	A patch to use another shared register is planned by
+	peter.pearse<at>arm.com.
+d)	Information regarding the Code Sourcery EABI toolchains is available
+	from http://www.codesourcery.com.
+	See esp. http://www.codesourcery.com/archives.
+e)	If using a toolchain which has not been built to offer ARM/thumb
+	interworking the following line, added to config.mk will remove
+	warnings of the form "X does not support interworking, whereas Y does"
+
+		PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mno-thumb-interwork,)
+
+Board and/or toolchain specific optimizations
+=============================================
+TBD

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