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>
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>
This separation allows to specify unique options and features for each
CPU.
For example ARC 770D has LLOCK/SCOND instructions built-in by default.
Also this new scheme simplifies selection of proper configuration for
users - preconfigured options now match templates for ARC CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Anton Kolesov <akolesov@synopsys.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Due to a kconfig limitation, we can't select a no-prompt symbol that
gets its dependencies by being conditionally re-defined in one or more
if-blocks, like we currently do for BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS.
As a workaround to this issue, we just redefine that symbol in the arc
if-block, like we do for all other architectures, except that in the arc
case, the default value is conditional.
Reported-by: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: indepently re-done a patch similar to the one
Thomas made on his own]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The fact that atomic operations are available is not really a
specificity of the toolchain, but rather of the architecture.
So, add a new option that architectures that have atomic operations
can select. This in turn selects the current toolchain atomic option,
until all packages have been converted, at which point the old
toolchain option can be removed.
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
GCC has several builtin functions that implement atomic operations. Those
functions are architecture specific and may not be implemented by the
specific toolchain. In case of GCC for ARC those functions rely on
LLOCK/SCOND instructions which are optional in ARC CPU's. If ARC CPU doesn't
support those instructions but software tries to use them, then application
will be aborted with Illegal instruction exception. To avoid confusion user
should first specify that their CPU supports atomic extension, which will
allow selection of packages that use builtin atomic functions.
Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
All packages use github now.
This reverts commit 1445b7fd2e.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As ARC support is not yet in all upstream packages, a different location is
required to download the packages from. This adds an option to specify a
site for ARC-specific versions of packages such as binutils, gcc.
When ARC support has been upstreamed for all packages, this option can be
removed again.
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Synopsys' DesignWare ARC Processor Cores are a family of 32-bit CPUs that
can be used from deeply embedded to high performance host applications.
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
