[U-Boot] [PATCH V4] libgcc inclusion from common Makefile overwritable from platform configs files

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 22:30 Wed 08 Jul     , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
> 
> In message <1247084077-12867-1-git-send-email-plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> you wrote:
> > This patch allow to overwrit the libgcc Makefile inclusion from the toplevel
> 
> overwrite
> 
> > Makefile by the arch_config.mk files. This is in preparation for the ARM
> > architecture to move away from including libgcc function and only using
> > self-contained U-Boot functions as done in Linux.
> > 
> > Currently all the ARM boards that use the nand are broken due to the adding of
> > the 64 Bit device size support. In the past we have seen problems with different
> > toolchains due to EABI, FPU as example.
> 
> tool chains
> 
> > With this patch and the following one we move away from all these problems and
> 
> "the following one" makes no sense. After comitting the patch, nobody
> knows what "the following one" might have been - even now I don't know
> what you are referring to.
I refer to the arm patch that remove the libgcc depency
> 
> > we will be able to have full control to have a functions embedded into u-boot.
> 
> This sentence makes no sense to me either.
for arm as example the gcc does not provide necessarely cored functions for
all ABI we do need to control wich one we need to use into u-boot

Best Regards,
J.