[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] ARMV7: Patch to fix hard float build issues

Raghuveer Murthy x0075817 at ti.com
Mon Feb 21 11:36:09 CET 2011


On Sunday 20 February 2011 01:25 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Raghuveer Murthy,
>
> In message<1298042212-12260-1-git-send-email-raghuveer.murthy at ti.com>  you wrote:
>> U-boot built for MeeGo on PandaBoard, with compiler option
>> -mfloat-abi=hard, caused a build break. Please refer to the bug id:
>>
>> http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13140
>>
>> Removing the -msoft-float options in the config.mk files, allowed it
>> to be built for both armv7hl and armv7el compilers on MeeGo
>>
>> Please refer to the below link for more details:
>> http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Toolchains/ToolchainChangeProposal
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Raghuveer Murthy<raghuveer.murthy at ti.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm/cpu/armv7/config.mk             |    2 +-
>>   arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/config.mk |    2 +-
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> After we had just another round of these discussions I thing we have
> again found an agreement that there are good reasons for using
> -msoft-float.
>
> I hereby reject your patch.
>
> If you have problems with your tool chain, please feel free to use
> the U-Boot provided libgcc functions instead (by providing
> USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=yes on the command line) or even your private
> libgcc code (by providing USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=directory_with_your_lib
> on the command line).
>
> Or fix your tool chain so it provides a soft-float version of the
> needed library routines, too.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>

Acknowledge the comments. Thanks for you time.

Regards,
Raghuveer


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