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Ezequiel García 027b7ca0f2 arch/arm: add the cortex A17 variant supported by gcc 5.x
Add the Cortex A17 variant. This core is considered a replacement
of the Cortex A12 and is supported by gcc 5 / binutils 2.25+

Suggested-by: Ross Green <greenfross@netscape.net>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-02-22 09:31:42 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni 4a3f597a0e arch: remove BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS option
Now that BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS is no longer used anywhere, we can
remove it from arch/Config.in*, as well as from the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2016-02-06 11:16:00 +01:00
Sergi Granell 449d7b9127 Add ARM11 MPCore CPU target support
gcc differentiates the mpcore-with-vfp from the mcpore-without-vfp
CPUs. The former is named just 'mpcore', while the latter is named
'mpcorenovfp'.

We only add one entry, 'mpcore' and let the user select whether or
not to use the VFP. We then name the CPU according to the user's
selection.

Signed-off-by: Sergi Granell <xerpi.g.12@gmail.com>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-01-03 22:35:22 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni bb02e4c0b3 arch/arm: add help text to BR2_ARM_ENABLE_VFP
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-12-27 12:22:43 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN 110fecf1f5 arch/arm: only expose VFP in FP strategy when the CPU *has* a VFP unit
There's no point in offering the user an option to select an FP strategy
when the CPU does not actually have a VFP unit.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-12-27 12:17:48 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN b08723087d arch/arm: only expose EABIhf when the CPU *has* a VFP unit
There's no point in offering the user an option to select EABIhf when
the CPU does not really have a VFP unit.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-12-27 12:17:36 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN f52692ed64 arch/arm: add option to enable an optional VFP unit
Currently, the VFP selection for ARM is a little bit muddy:
  - some CPUs definitely do not have a VFP or NEON,
  - some CPUs definitely do have a VFP or NEON,
  - some CPUs may have a VFP or NEON.

However, we currently conflate the availability of the VFP/NEON with the
possibility to use them. Even is the user chooses a floating point
strategy with a 'lower' solution (i.e. VFPv2 when a VFPv3 exists, or not
using NEON when the CPU has it), some packages are still using the
CPU-defined HW availaibility rather thean the usr's selection.

Furthermore, for CPU that may have a VFP/NEON, there is no way for the
user to actually specify that the HW is indeed available; the user can
only specify the floating point strategy. This means that some packages
or some package versions, like nodejs for example, can not be properly
selected on some CPU cores, like Cortex-A9 which only may have a VFP.

Like we have an option to enable an optional NEON unit, add a similar
option to enable an optional VFP unit.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-12-27 12:17:23 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN b64bcbf5f2 arch/arm: reorder NEON option
Stating whether to use the NEON extensions when it is optional in the
CPU really is completing the definition of the CPU we've just selected.

Move the ENABLE_NEON option just after the choice of the CPU variant,
and before any "software" option (ABI/VFP).

This will make sense in a moment, when we introduce a similar option for
enabling an optional VFP unit.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-12-27 12:16:45 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle b3f7f949f0 arch: add tune options for powerpc e5500 and e6500
These were forgotten when the subarches were added in cd88e49.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Alvaro Gamez <alvaro.gamez@hazent.com>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Tested-by: Alvaro G. M <alvaro.gamez@hazent.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-11-17 00:16:39 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN e4b1fa69cd arch/arm: VFP and Thumb1 are not compatible
gcc will refuse to build with both --with-mode=thumb and --with-fpu=vfp,
with error messages during ./configure, like:

    checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/ymor
    in/dev/buildroot/O/build/host-gcc-initial-4.9.3/build/arm-buildroot-lin
    ux-uclibcgnueabihf/libgcc':
    configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
    See `config.log' for more details.

And config.log informatively contains:

    sorry, unimplemented: Thumb-1 hard-float VFP ABI

This is an error message that comes deep from gcc source files.

If gcc says it does not support VFP with Thumb1, then let's disable that
combination in our menuconfig.

Prefer VFP over Thumb1, i.e. hide Thumb1 when we're not soft-float.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-03 23:50:01 +01:00
Benoît Thébaudeau cc0773f2a8 arch/arm: use EABIhf by default with VFP
Set EABIhf as the default target ABI for the ARM processors that have or
may have a VFP unit, since this ABI is the most efficient in that case.
Of course, EABI can still be selected manually if needed.

[Peter: only default to EABIHF when we are sure the CPU has a VFP]
Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-10-25 19:56:20 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard 8da1239a12 arch/Config.in.x86: drop trailing dot (.) from x1000 URL
And add an empty line below for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-10-20 11:32:03 +02:00
Ray Kinsella 968f5d5e59 arch/x86: add support for Intel X1000
The Intel X1000 is the Pentium class microprocessor that ships with
Galileo Gen 1/2. This patch adds changes to arch and toolchain-wrapper
to omit the lock prefix for the X1000.

[Thomas: tweak commit log and Config.in help text.]

Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <ray.kinsella@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-20 10:04:52 +02:00
Vicente Olivert Riera 99122d6780 arch: add support for mips32r6 and mips64r6 variants
- Add support for mips32r6 and mips64r6 target architecture variants
- Disable unsupported gcc versions
- Disable unsupported binutils versions
- Disable unsupported external toolchains
- Disable unsuported C libraries
- Add a hook in order to make glibc compile for MIPS R6.

[Thomas: slightly tweak the glibc hack explanation, to make it
hopefully clearer.]

Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-12 21:33:56 +02:00
Waldemar Brodkorb 4a92f6754a toolchain: add sparc64 architecture support
Introduce sparc64 architecture to buildroot.

Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Tested-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-10 12:51:45 +02:00
Vicente Olivert Riera 25677a717c arch/mips: remove some remaining mips1/2/3/4 bits
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-09 23:15:49 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard 7deaa277fd arch/arm: add missing arm1136j-s variant
Identical to arm1136jf-s, except that is doesn't have a vfp unit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-08-24 00:43:12 +02:00
Alexey Brodkin 3720e28d15 ARC: allow selection of MMU page size
Modern ARC cores (those sporting MMU of version 3 and 4) allow selection
of different page sizes (4, 8 or 16 kB) during ASIC design creation.
And it's important to build a toolchain with page size setting that matches
hardware.

Otherwise user-space applications will fail on execution due to
unexpected data layout/alignment etc.

[Thomas: slightly improve help text, fix indentation of help text.]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Anton Kolesov <akolesov@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-18 14:07:35 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni f410de4140 arch: aarch64 always has a MMU
Following the addition of AArch64 big endian, the AArch64 little
endian option had lost its 'select BR2_ARCH_HAS_MMU_MANDATORY', so
let's reintroduce it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-12 18:34:42 +02:00
Bamvor Jian Zhang 827ba46556 aarch64: add big endian(aarch64_be) support
Add aarch64_be support. Note that CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN should be
defined in kernel config when building a big endian kernel.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Jian(Bamvor) <bamvor.zhangjian@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-12 18:32:37 +02:00
Guido Martínez 9971ebfe9d arm: update processor types
Add the Cortex M3 variant. These microcontrollers don't support regular
ARM instructions and don't have an MMU.

Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-06-28 14:32:25 +02:00
Guido Martínez 22d5501e03 arch: tidy up binary formats config
Instead of (black)listing architectures when deciding the binary format,
we can enable the ELF format only when using an MMU and FLAT only when
we're not. This mimics the logic in the Linux kernel for user binaries
support.

For FDPIC, we introduce a Kconfig option to enable its selection, and
have blackfin select it.

Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-06-09 22:51:14 +02:00
Guido Martínez 29563047e0 arch: tidy up mmu config
Instead of blacklisting which architectures support MMUs (mandatorily
or optionally), introduce two Kconfig options that are selected by each
architecture in each case.

This simplifies the logic in BR2_USE_MMU.

Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-06-09 22:49:39 +02:00
Max Filippov 083ec2df6c arch/Config.in.xtensa: provide BR2_ENDIAN symbol
Packages get hints from the buildroot at configure time, e.g.
ac_cv_c_bigendian=yes/no. This particular hint is based on the value of
BR2_ENDIAN and when it doesn't match actual toolchain endiannes the
build may break.
Provide BR2_ENDIAN for xtensa to fix this sort of build errors.

Fixes:
  http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/31115fe8d88f52d77ed0f2da769eb8896a1b34a2/

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-05-05 22:44:04 +02:00
Waldemar Brodkorb b49aeacfca sh64: deprecate support for this dead architecture
As discussed on the mailinglist, this should be deprecated
before removal.

[Thomas: don't add to Config.in.legacy.]

Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-04-25 10:32:40 +02:00
Steven Noonan f92e6219cf arch: add core-avx2
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-04-09 23:34:14 +02:00
Steven Noonan c060425f67 arch: add corei7-avx
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-04-09 23:34:08 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias 7428ffe337 arch/sparc: doesn't have atomics
Cores older than v9 don't seem to have atomics so remove it.
Fixes a test build of pulseaudio for example.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-03-30 23:30:28 +02:00
Sonic Zhang 1b171af3b3 arch: BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED is not really shared for buildroot purposes
Although BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED is indeed a shared library format, it does
not support dynamic library loading with dlopen(). So for buildroot
purposes, BR2_STATIC_LIBS shouldn't be selected.

As it happens, the compiler options that are added for
BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED also make the compiler ignore the -static option, so
we can simply force BR2_STATIC_LIBS and things work out perfectly.

Therefore, remove the select of BR2_BINFMT_SUPPORTS_SHARED from
BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED, which in turn makes sure that BR2_STATIC_LIBS is
selected.

[Arnout: rewrite commit message, add explanatory comment]

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-03-30 23:07:48 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias 50451998f0 arch: add support for AMD steamroller
Add support for AMD steamroller optimizations, available in gcc 4.8+ as
bdver3.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-03-04 22:16:41 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN 80be8753d5 arch/avr32: decommission for real
Now that we have absolutely zero reference to the avr32 architecture, we
can now really decommission the symbol.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-02-14 17:46:42 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN a46007daa7 arch: kill avr32
avr32 was slated for removal in 2015.02. Make it so!

This patch only definitively hides the symbol. When all references
to it are eradicated (to come in followup patches), we'll eventually
kill the symbol altogether.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-02-14 17:39:50 +01:00
Guido Martínez a87f5806ed arm: conditionally support regular ARM instructions
Until now, all ARM processors supported the original ARM instructions.
However, the Cortex-M variants don't support them, and support only
Thumb/Thumb2 modes.

So, make a Kconfig option for ARM support and use it.

[Thomas:
  - Remove the dependency in the choice between ARM/Thumb/Thumb-2,
    because basically the choice is now always visible.
  - Replace the BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM_CHOICE choice option directly
    by BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM, instead of having this blind option
    defined separately. This means the choice is now always visible,
    even when only the ARM instruction set is supported.]

Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-02-02 18:32:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni 158001f57b Turn the static lib option into a choice with more options
This commit turns the single static option into a choice, which offers
various possibilities:

 1. Build and use static libraries only;
 2. Build both shared and static libraries, but use shared libraries;
 3. Build and use shared libraries only.

On most platforms, (2) is currently the default, and kept as the
default in this commit. Of course, on certain platforms (Blackfin,
m68k), only option (1) will be available.

In addition to the introduction of the Config.in options, this commit
also:

 * Removes the 'select BR2_STATIC_LIBS' from 'BR2_BINFMT_FLAT', since
   with the use of a choice, we are guaranteed that BR2_STATIC_LIBS
   will be selected when the binary format is BR2_BINFMT_FLAT, since
   BR2_STATIC_LIBS will be the only possible solution in the choice.

 * Changes package/Makefile.in to use the proper
   --{enable,disable}-{shared,static} options for autotools packages.

[Thomas: remove useless empty newline right after 'choice'. Noticed by
Yann E. Morin.]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2014-12-12 00:09:02 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni 375c77ad4e arch: remove superfluous arch dependencies on BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_*
As noted by Yann E. Morin, those dependencies are unneeded, since FLAT
can anyway only be used on m68k and Blackfin.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-12-11 22:51:12 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni b85837e5d6 arch: introduce BR2_BINFMT_SUPPORTS_SHARED
In preparation for the refactoring of the static/shared library
support, we add a BR2_BINFMT_SUPPORTS_SHARED hidden option that binary
formats supporting shared libraries should select.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2014-12-11 22:50:40 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni c1a38829e7 arch: ensure BR2_BINFMT_ELF is really used
Currently, the binary format choice is only shown for the Blackfin and
m68k architectures, since we assume that all other architectures are
using the ELF binary format. However, due to this, the BR2_BINFMT_ELF
symbol is in fact not set to 'y' for those architectures that use the
ELF format.

This will be causing problems for the refactoring of the static/shared
library support, as we will need to know if the binary format supports
shared libraries or not.

Therefore, we simply make the choice visible on all architectures,
even if it means that on many architectures no other choice than ELF
will be available.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2014-12-11 22:49:14 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni c149083f93 arch: FDPIC is not supported on m68k
The current binfmt selection in arch/Config.in allows to select FDPIC
on m68k, which is incorrect. This commit fixes that, and makes sure
FDPIC is the default on Blackfin, while FLAT is the default on m68k.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2014-12-11 22:48:57 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni 665e13c85e Rename BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to BR2_STATIC_LIBS
Since a while, the semantic of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB has been changed
from "prefer static libraries when possible" to "use only static
libraries". The former semantic didn't make much sense, since the user
had absolutely no control/idea of which package would use static
libraries, and which packages would not. Therefore, for quite some
time, we have been starting to enforce that BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
should really build everything with static libraries.

As a consequence, this patch renames BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to
BR2_STATIC_LIBS, and adjust the Config.in option accordingly.

This also helps preparing the addition of other options to select
shared, shared+static or just static.

Note that we have verified that this commit can be reproduced by
simply doing a global rename of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to
BR2_STATIC_LIBS plus adding BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to Config.in.legacy.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2014-12-11 22:48:13 +01:00
Gustavo Zacarias cd88e49cd7 arch/powerpc: add fsl e5500 and e6500 support
Add Freescale E5500 and E6500 core support.
These can go in 32 or 64-bit mode.
I'm not aware of these being able to boot in LE mode so filter that out
until we get some feedback on it.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: "Matt Weber" <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-12-07 23:46:41 +01:00
Gustavo Zacarias dd45fe0efb arch/mips: remove deprecated mips1/2/3/4 support
Remove the support for generating mips1/2/3/4 code since it has been
deprecated for more than a year now.
Also remove the unnecessary kludges in packages for it.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Acked-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-12-01 20:06:32 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard 80e4060908 arch/Config.in.x86: drop BR2_x86_generic
The fuzzy generic x86 variant doesn't make much sense in the context of
Buildroot, and the recent change to use -march instead of -mtune broke it.

From the GCC manual:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.2/gcc/i386-and-x86-64-Options.html#i386-and-x86-64-Options:

-mtune=cpu-type
    Tune to cpu-type everything applicable about the generated code,
    except for the ABI and the set of available instructions. While
    picking a specific cpu-type schedules things appropriately for that
    particular chip, the compiler does not generate any code that cannot
    run on the default machine type unless you use a -march=cpu-type
    option. For example, if GCC is configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu then
    -mtune=pentium4 generates code that is tuned for Pentium 4 but still
    runs on i686 machines.

    The choices for cpu-type are the same as for -march. In addition,
    -mtune supports 2 extra choices for cpu-type:

    ‘generic’
        Produce code optimized for the most common IA32/AMD64/EM64T
        processors. If you know the CPU on which your code will run,
        then you should use the corresponding -mtune or -march option
        instead of -mtune=generic. But, if you do not know exactly what
        CPU users of your application will have, then you should use
        this option.

        As new processors are deployed in the marketplace, the behavior
        of this option will change. Therefore, if you upgrade to a newer
        version of GCC, code generation controlled by this option will
        change to reflect the processors that are most common at the
        time that version of GCC is released.

        There is no -march=generic option because -march indicates the
        instruction set the compiler can use, and there is no generic
        instruction set applicable to all processors. In contrast,
        -mtune indicates the processor (or, in this case, collection of
        processors) for which the code is optimized.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 19:51:06 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni bc48f2312e arch: remove the BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE option
The BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE option is now unused, so we can get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:16:47 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni db5e6d6c14 arch/m68k: get rid of BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE
On m68k, we are passing the exact same values of BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH
and BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE, which is redundant. Therefore, this commit
removes the usage of BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE on m68k.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:14:13 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni 75418c4cf6 arch/powerpc: get rid of BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE
According to the gcc documentation for PowerPC options:

'-mtune=CPU_TYPE'
     Set the instruction scheduling parameters for machine type
     CPU_TYPE, but do not set the architecture type, register usage, or
     choice of mnemonics, as '-mcpu=CPU_TYPE' would.  The same values
     for CPU_TYPE are used for '-mtune' as for '-mcpu'.  If both are
     specified, the code generated will use the architecture, registers,
     and mnemonics set by '-mcpu', but the scheduling parameters set by
     '-mtune'.

In the case of Buildroot where we only target a specific system, using
-mtune therefore doesn't make much sense, and using -mcpu would be
more appropriate. As a consequence, this patch makes PowerPC use
BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU instead of BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:13:49 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni a5023c5204 arch/sparc: get rid of BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE
On SPARC, BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE was only used for one specific case, the
BR2_sparc_v8. There is actually no reason to not use
BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU instead for this, as all values supported for
-mtune are also supported for -mcpu. Therefore, the only
BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE case is moved as a BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU case.

[Peter: fixup merge conflict after 'sparc: Add leon3 cpu type and remove sparc{s,h}fleon{,v8}]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:13:08 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni 6bec1d5191 arch/x86: get rid of BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE
According to the gcc documentation, -march implies -mtune on x86, so
defining both BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH and BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE is
redundant. Therefore, this commit removes the definition of
BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE on x86.

However, while doing so, it adds one new case for BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH:
using -march=generic when BR2_x86_generic is selected.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:09:21 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni fd828fd98f arch/arm: remove BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH definitions on ARM
On ARM, we were defining both the CPU type and the architecture
variant. However, depending on the version of gcc, a given combination
of (CPU, architecture) may not be the same. Since the architecture
variant is implied by the CPU type, given the former is not necessary,
and we can simply specify the latter.

>From the gcc documentation:

  This specifies the name of the target ARM processor. GCC uses this
  name to derive the name of the target ARM architecture (as if
  specified by -march) and the ARM processor type for which to tune
  for performance (as if specified by -mtune). Where this option is
  used in conjunction with -march or -mtune, those options take
  precedence over the appropriate part of this option.

Note that we verified that for all BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH value that
existed, a proper BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU value is defined.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:07:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni 24dfbe71e0 arch/arm: do not distinguish revisions of ARM1136JF-S
In commit 88cf3bb917
("arch/Config.in.arm: Use armv6k for arm1136jf-s rev1"), Benoît
Thébaudeau added separate options for the revision 0 and revision 1 of
the ARM1136JF-S processor, so that different -march values could be
used (armv6j for revision 0, armv6k for revision 1).

However, this is preventing the removal of the BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH
option, which we need to do to give only the CPU type to gcc, and let
it decide the architecture variant that matches. This is because this
story of revision 0 vs. revision 1 is the only case where -mcpu
doesn't fully define the CPU.

Moreover, a quick test with gcc shows that -march=armv6j
-mcpu=arm1136jf-s is accepted, while -march=armv6k -mcpu=arm1136jf-s
makes gcc complain: " warning: switch -mcpu=arm1136jf-s conflicts with
-march=armv6k switch".

In addition, gcc 5 will apparently no longer allow to pass all of
--with-arch, --with-cpu and --with-tune, so we will anyway have to
rely only on one of them.

As a consequence, this commit basically reverts
88cf3bb917 and provides only one option
for ARM1136JF-S. If the two revisions are really different, then they
should be supported in upstream gcc with different -mcpu values.

Note that the removal of the two options should not break existing
full .config, since the hidden option BR2_arm1136jf_s becomes again a
visible option to select the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:05:11 +01:00
Alexey Brodkin f787b51af5 arc: add support of ARC HS38 core
Synopsys has recently announced its new ARC HS38 core that is capable of
running Linux -
http://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc-hs38-processor

ARC HS38 is based on ARCv2 ISA and requires special settings of gcc and
libc.

Also in case of HS38 atomic extensions (LLOCK/SCOND instructions) are
built-in by default, so enabling atomic extensions in Buildroot as well.

This commit adds support of the core in buildroot.

[Peter: string type, so must be in quotes as noted by Yann]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Anton Kolesov <anton.kolesov@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-02 22:25:27 +01:00