While testing Buildroot on a Cortex-A5 that doesn't provide NEON, we
found out that a system generated with the ARM toolchain from Arm
didn't boot. It turns out that this ARM toolchain is built with:
--with-arch=armv7-a --with-fpu=neon --with-float=hard --with-mode=thumb
So, it uses NEON as its FPU, which means it can only work on CPU cores
that have NEON support. This commit adds the appropriate dependency to
the toolchain-external-arm-arm package, and adjusts the Config.in help
text accordingly.
While at it, it also drops the part of the Config.in help text that
says the code is tuned for Cortex-A9, as it is not the case: it was
the case for the Linaro toolchain (built with --with-tune=cortex-a9),
but not for the ARM toolchain, for which no specific --with-tune is
passed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Enable OpenMP support in the following external toolchains:
toolchain-external-arm-aarch64-be
toolchain-external-arm-aarch64
toolchain-external-arm-arm
toolchain-external-codescape-img-mips
toolchain-external-codescape-mti-mips
toolchain-external-codesourcery-amd64
toolchain-external-codesourcery-mips
toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be
toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64
toolchain-external-linaro-arm
toolchain-external-linaro-armeb
Signed-off-by: Ed Blake <ed.blake@sondrel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
>From [1]:
* All GCC 8.2 features. For details on GCC 8 release series.
* Linaro specific pre-processor macros to ensure that this is a
continuation from the Linaro releases.
* Spectre v1 mitigation backport from upstream FSF trunk include the
revisions. This is an initial backport of those mitigations in
the GNU toolchain and should be regarded as support for prototyping
and early access only. Moreover, while the backports include support
for the other architectures, they are included for completeness and
all issues regarding these patches must be taken up upstream in the
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla by reproducing the same with upstream
FSF trunk.
Arm is interested in feedback regarding these workarounds for
Spectre v1.
A description of the mitigation has been published on LWN.net.
See "Release Note":
[1] https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads#
Tested with qemu_arm_vexpress_defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This is the same toolchain that was previously distributed by Linaro. [1]
Switch default toolchain as this toolchain supersed the Linaro ARM toolchain.
Only x86_64 host are supported, so keep Linaro toolchain for x86 host.
Tested with qemu_arm_vexpress_defconfig.
[1] https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
