[U-Boot] [RFC] fix break caused by new binutils
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Mon Jan 24 20:14:01 CET 2011
Dear Steve Sakoman,
In message <1295895368.1999.14.camel at quadra> you wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 19:36 +0100, Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal wrote:
> > According with this discussion [1] the new assemblers need
> > -march=armv7-a+sec on command line or .arch_extension sec inline to
> > enable use of the smc instruction.
> >
> > In the sakoman's u-boot repository there is branch for the omap4 [2]
> > which uses the smc instruction with the -march=armv7-a, and it will
> > not compile with the latest binutils (2.21)
>
> Just to clarify -- my branch has Aneesh's "armv7: adapt omap4 to the new
> cache maintenance framework" patch series in it.
>
> So this issue will arise only when Aneesh's patch series is applied.
I have a bsic question: do we really need -march=armv7-a at all in
U-Boot? What is it good for?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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