[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: config.mk isn't needed

[Stephen Warren]

On 01/29/2014 02:22 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 29.01.2014 06:42, schrieb Stephen Warren:
>> The entries in config.mk were needed so that U-Boot could be built
>> with an old version of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's toolchain. Without
>> them, the build would error out with:
>>
>> ...-ld: error: .../libgcc.a(_bswapsi2.o) uses VFP register arguments,
>> u-boot does not
>>
>> However, none of the 3 toolchains in the latest version of their
>> tools.git, nor the Ubuntu/Linaro ARM compilers in at least Ubuntu Quantal
>> or Saucy, need these options set in order to compile a working U-Boot.
>> Hence, remove the options for simplicity.
>>
>> Reported-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/bcm2835/config.mk | 19 -------------------
>>  1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/bcm2835/config.mk
> 
> No objection against the patch, but why was arch/arm/config.mk using
> -msoft-float in the first place?

It wasn't. It was filtering -msoft-float out of the compiler flags,
which then left the ABI up to the toolchain default, which was hardfp
for one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's toolchains - the same one that
caused the error messages quoted above unless -msoft-float was removed
from the compiler options.