[U-Boot] U-Boot PXA support

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu May 9 14:56:20 UTC 2019


On 5/9/19 4:02 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 09:26:04AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I'm attempting, again, to see what we need to do in order to use gcc-8.x
>> for U-Boot and ran into, again:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/920329/ which in short is that when
>> using -mcpu=xscale gcc-8.x throws an odd error:
>> cc1: error: switch -mcpu=xscale conflicts with -march=armv5te switch [-Werror]
>>
>> Now note, U-Boot isn't passing -march= at all, just -mcpu=xscale which
>> suggests perhaps something broke in upstream gcc.  Looking at the
>> kernel, it's not used -mcpu=xscale ever, just -mtune=xscale but that
>> leads to different failures (seen here with gcc-7.3):
>>   CC      drivers/usb/gadget/pxa25x_udc.o
>> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
>> {standard input}:779: Error: selected processor does not support `pld [lr]' in ARM mode
>> {standard input}:1201: Error: selected processor does not support `pld [r7]' in ARM mode
>> {standard input}:2519: Error: selected processor does not support `pld [r3]' in ARM mode
>> {standard input}:2796: Error: selected processor does not support `pld [r3]' in ARM mode
>>
>> So, what should we do about this?  Is there still active interest in
>> supporting the PXA platforms?  Thanks folks!
> 
> ping?  Thanks!

Maybe we should just remove it.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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