[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] armv7m: Fix larger builds

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed May 31 14:27:45 UTC 2017


On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 02:24:13PM +0000, Phil Edworthy wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 31 May 2017 14:10 Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 08:27:05AM +0100, Phil Edworthy wrote:
> > 
> > > The branch instruction only has an 11-bit relative target address,
> > > which is sometimes not enough.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy at renesas.com>
> > > ---
> > > v2:
> > >  - Use W(b) instead of ldr+mov. Using this macro requires
> > >    CONFIG_ARM_ASM_UNIFIED and CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL to be
> > defined.
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/cpu/armv7m/Makefile | 3 +++
> > >  arch/arm/cpu/armv7m/start.S  | 4 +++-
> > >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7m/Makefile
> > > b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7m/Makefile index 257fc7f..df1fc95 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7m/Makefile
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7m/Makefile
> > > @@ -8,3 +8,6 @@
> > >  extra-y := start.o
> > >  obj-y += cpu.o cache.o mpu.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER) += systick-timer.o
> > > +
> > > +asflags-y += -DCONFIG_ARM_ASM_UNIFIED asflags-y +=
> > > +-DCONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
> > 
> > Lets move these two symbols to Kconfig and select them on CPU_V7M,
> > thanks!
> 
> These two symbols come from Linux asm files that have been simply
> copied over to U-Boot, they are not configuration options in U-Boot.
> They are used by both CPU_V7M and others.
> 
> Perhaps I have misunderstood, but for non-CPU_V7M, since
> CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL depends on CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD,
> are you asking me to add Kconfig for CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD?

No, I'm saying that CONFIG_ARM_ASM_UNIFIED and CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL need
to get moved to arch/arm/Kconfig and select'd by CPU_V7M, with a comment
about how we need these for compatibility with files we copy from the
Linux kernel.  Then they will be defined automatically.

-- 
Tom
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