[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 v6] Make libgcc inclusion from common Makefile overridable by platform config file

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,

In message <1247135043-3494-1-git-send-email-plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> you wrote:
> This patch allows to override the libgcc Makefile inclusion from the toplevel
> Makefile by the arch config.mk files. This is in preparation for the ARM
> architecture to move away from including libgcc functions and only using
> self-contained U-Boot functions as done in Linux.
> 
> Currently all the ARM boards that use NAND are broken due to the addition of
> 64 Bit device size support. In the past we have seen similar problems with
> different tool chains due to EABI and FPU for example.
> 
> With this patch and this one: "ARM: Don't include libgcc anymore" we move away
> from all these problems on ARM since we don't include any functions from
> libgcc anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>

As discussed before, I rejected this patch because it seems wrong to
me 1) to assume that all ARM tool chains have a broken/unusable
implementation of the libgcc runtime support library, 2) I don't want
to make a workaround for a broken tool chain the default setting, and
3) we should not restrict this to the ARM architecture but allow the
same for other architectures as well.

I suggested another approach in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/63156/focus=63550
but no one commented on this.

As there are some people suffereing from the current situation and no
progress has been visible for some time, I wll soon post a patch that
implements my proposal.

Hope this allows to bring this topic to an end.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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