This commit adds the support for gcc 6. This release allows to remove
a large number of our gcc patches, mainly thanks to the Xtensa and
musl related patches being merged upstream.
Patches kept with no changes:
100-uclibc-conf.patch
301-missing-execinfo_h.patch
810-arm-softfloat-libgcc.patch
830-arm_unbreak_armv4t.patch
840-microblaze-enable-dwarf-eh-support.patch
860-cilk-wchar.patch
890-fix-m68k-compile.patch
Patches dropped because they have been merged upstream, or were
already upstream backports:
120-gcc-config.gcc-fix-typo-for-powerpc-e6500-cpu_is_64b.patch (merged)
850-libstdcxx-uclibc-c99.patch (merged in a different form, see
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58393)
870-xtensa-add-mauto-litpools-option.patch (upstream backport)
871-xtensa-reimplement-register-spilling.patch (upstream backport)
872-xtensa-use-unwind-dw2-fde-dip-instead-of-unwind-dw2-.patch (upstream backport)
873-xtensa-fix-_Unwind_GetCFA.patch (upstream backport)
874-xtensa-add-uclinux-support.patch (upstream backport)
900-libitm-fixes-for-musl-support.patch (upstream backport)
901-fixincludes-update-for-musl-support.patch (upstream backport)
902-unwind-fix-for-musl.patch (upstream backport)
903-libstdc++-libgfortran-gthr-workaround-for-musl.patch (upstream backport)
904-musl-libc-config.patch (upstream backport)
905-add-musl-support-to-gcc.patch (upstream backport)
905-add-musl-support-to-gcc.patch (upstream backport)
906-mips-musl-support.patch (upstream backport)
907-x86-musl-support.patch (upstream backport)
908-arm-musl-support.patch (upstream backport)
909-aarch64-musl-support.patch (upstream backport)
Successfully build-time and run-time tested with
qemu_arm_vexpress_defconfig, using gcc 6.x, both in uClibc and musl
configurations.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The Linux kernel doesn't even support i386 anymore, there is no NPTL
support for i386 and uClibc-ng only supports NPTL on x86, so there is
essentially no usable thread implementation. Most likely glibc and
musl also don't support i386 either. So it's time to remove the
support for this architecture variant.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Until now, we were assuming that whenever you have gcc 4.8, libatomic
is available. It turns out that this is not correct, since libatomic
will not be available if thread support is disabled in the toolchain.
Therefore, __atomic_*() intrinsics may not be available even if the
toolchain uses gcc 4.8.
To solve this problem, we introduce a BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC
boolean, which indicates whether the toolchain has libatomic. It is
the case when you are using gcc >= 4.8 *and* thread support is
enabled. We then use this new BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC to define
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC.
As explained in the comment, on certain architectures, libatomic is
technically not needed to provide the __atomic_*() intrinsics since
they might be all built-in. However, since libatomic is only absent in
non-thread capable toolchains, it is not worth making things more
complex for such seldomly used configuration.
Note that we are introducing the intermediate
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC option because it will be useful on its
own for certain packages.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: improve Config.in comment using a suggestion from Yann.]
Currently, Buildroot provides one BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS boolean option
to indicate whether the architecture supports atomic operations or
not. However, the reality of atomic operations support is much more
complicated and requires more than one option to be expressed
properly.
There are in fact two types of atomic built-ins provided by gcc:
(1) The __sync_*() family of functions, which have been in gcc for a
long time (probably gcc 4.1). They are available in variants
operating on 1-byte, 2-byte, 4-byte and 8-byte integers. Some
architectures implement a number of variants, some do not
implement any, some implement all of them.
They are now considered "legacy" by the gcc developers but are
nonetheless still being used by a significant number of userspace
libraries and applications.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fsync-Builtins.html
(2) The __atomic_*() family of functions, which have been introduced
in gcc 4.7. They have been introduced in order to support C++11
atomic operations. In gcc 4.8, they are available on all
architectures, either built-in or in the libatomic library part
of the gcc runtime (in which case the application needs to be
linked with -latomic). In gcc 4.7, the __atomic_*() intrinsics
are only supported on certain architectures, since libatomic did
not exist at the time.
For (1), a single BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS is not sufficient, because
depending on the architecture, some variants may or may not be
available. Setting BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS to false as soon as one of the
variant is missing would cause a large number of packages to become
unavailable, even if they in fact use only more common variants
available on a large number of architectures. For this reason, we've
chosen to introduce four new Config.in options:
- BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_1
- BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_2
- BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_3
- BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4
Which indicate whether the toolchain support 1-byte, 2-byte, 4-byte
and 8-byte __sync_*() built-ins respectively.
For (2), we introduce a BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC, which indicates if
the __atomic_*() built-ins are available. Note that it is up to the
package to link with -latomic when gcc is >= 4.8. Since __atomic_*()
intrinsics for all sizes are supported starting
We conducted a fairly large analysis about various architectures
supported by Buildroot, as well as with a number of different
toolchains, to check which combinations support which variant. To do,
we linked the following program with various toolchains:
int main(void)
{
uint8_t a;
uint16_t b;
uint32_t c;
uint64_t d;
__sync_fetch_and_add(&a, 3);
__sync_fetch_and_add(&b, 3);
__sync_fetch_and_add(&c, 3);
__sync_fetch_and_add(&d, 3);
__sync_val_compare_and_swap(&a, 1, 2);
__sync_val_compare_and_swap(&b, 1, 2);
__sync_val_compare_and_swap(&c, 1, 2);
__sync_val_compare_and_swap(&d, 1, 2);
__atomic_add_fetch(&a, 3, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_add_fetch(&b, 3, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_add_fetch(&c, 3, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_add_fetch(&d, 3, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_compare_exchange_n(&a, &a, 2, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_compare_exchange_n(&b, &b, 2, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_compare_exchange_n(&c, &c, 2, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_compare_exchange_n(&d, &d, 2, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
return 0;
}
And looked at which symbols were unresolved. For the __atomic_*()
ones, we tested with and without -latomic to see which variants are
built-in, which variants require libatomic. This testing effort has
led to the following results:
__sync __atomic gcc
1 2 4 8 1 2 4 8
ARC Y Y Y - Y Y Y L 4.8 [with BR2_ARC_ATOMIC_EXT]
ARC - - - - L L L L 4.8 [without BR2_ARC_ATOMIC_EXT]
ARM Y Y Y X Y Y Y Y 4.8, 4.7
ARM Y Y Y - 4.5
AArch64 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 4.9, 5.1
Bfin - - Y - 4.3
i386 (i386) - - - - L L L L 4.9
i386 (i486..) Y Y Y - L L L L 4.9 [i486, c3, winchip2, winchip-c6]
i386 (> i586) Y Y Y Y L L L L 4.9
Microblaze - - Y - L L Y L 4.9
MIPS Y Y Y - Y Y Y L 4.9
MIPS64 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 4.9
NIOS 2 Y Y Y - Y Y Y L 4.9, 5.2
PowerPC Y Y Y - Y Y Y L 4.9
SuperH Y Y Y - Y Y Y L 4.9
SPARC - - - - L L L L 4.9
SPARC64 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 4.9
x86_64 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 4.7, 4.9
Xtensa Y Y Y - Y Y Y Y 4.9
Notes:
* __atomic built-ins appeared in gcc 4.7, so for toolchais older than
that, the __atomic column is empty.
* Y means 'supported built-in'
* L means 'supported via linking to libatomic' (only for __atomic
functions)
* X indicates a very special case for 8 bytes __sync built-ins on
ARM. On ARMv7, there is no problem, starting from gcc 4.7, the
__sync built-in for 8 bytes integers is implemented, fully in
userspace. For cores < ARMv7, doing a 8 bytes atomic operation
requires help from the kernel. Unfortunately, the libgcc code
implementing this uses the __write() function to display an error,
and this function is internal to glibc. Therefore, if you're using
glibc everything is fine, but if you're using uClibc or musl, you
cannot link an application that uses 8 bytes __sync
operations. This has been fixed as part of gcc PR68095, merged in
the gcc 5 branch but not yet part of any gcc release.
* - means not supported
This commit only introduces the new options. Follow-up commits will
progressively change the packages using BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS to use
the appropriate BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_x or BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC
until the point where BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Quite some time ago, we added the options
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_GCC_BUG_58595 and BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_GCC_BUG_58854 to
indicate if the toolchain was affected by those gcc bugs, which were
causing build failure with a number of packages.
With the recent change in the external toolchain logic to provide only
the latest version of each toolchain "family", all the toolchains
which were affected by those issues disappeared from Buildroot. Those
options are no longer being selected anywhere, and being blind
options, it means their value is always going to be "disabled".
Conquently, this commit removes those options completely, and updates
all the packages where they were used.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit adds a number of hidden Config.in options, that will be
used to handle dependencies on the gcc version. We mimic the model
that was used for the kernel headers dependency mechanism.
These hidden options will be selected by the internal and external
toolchain backend logic respectively, in follow-up commits.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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>
It's no longer used so farewell.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Remove BR2_INET_IPV6 select for predefined external toolchains.
Remove the (non)IPv6 option prompt since it's now mandatory.
And force the toolchain check now that internal uclibc is always built
with IPv6 support and external non-IPv6 toolchains are disallowed.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
It's now unused so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This will allow us to remove largefile handling in the tree without
breaking things while doing so.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
-pipe is causing some build failures in Linux kernel >= 3.17.
Also, nowadays, using -pipe does not gain as much as it used to back in
the days:
Measurements made with a 3.16.7 Linux kernel:
make linux-depends
time sh -c 'make linux-build >/dev/null 2>&1'
Without -pipe:
716.32user 54.44system 3:42.12elapsed 346%CPU
721.22user 54.47system 3:41.81elapsed 349%CPU
722.44user 54.00system 3:42.13elapsed 349%CPU
721.03user 53.81system 3:41.92elapsed 349%CPU
713.21user 53.63system 3:40.51elapsed 347%CPU
706.67user 52.42system 3:38.40elapsed 347%CPU
714.40user 53.18system 3:40.16elapsed 348%CPU
706.01user 53.09system 3:37.87elapsed 348%CPU
705.98user 53.01system 3:38.03elapsed 348%CPU
714.17user 53.55system 3:39.98elapsed 348%CPU
Average: 3:40.29elapsed
With -pipe:
720.13user 53.90system 3:41.98elapsed 348%CPU
713.38user 53.69system 3:40.44elapsed 347%CPU
711.60user 52.81system 3:39.06elapsed 348%CPU
708.66user 53.09system 3:38.59elapsed 348%CPU
711.76user 53.00system 3:38.48elapsed 350%CPU
717.85user 53.97system 3:41.77elapsed 348%CPU
716.77user 53.77system 3:40.91elapsed 348%CPU
717.48user 53.65system 3:41.24elapsed 348%CPU
721.44user 55.67system 3:43.45elapsed 347%CPU
724.61user 55.63system 3:43.35elapsed 349%CPU
Average: 3:40.93elapsed
The delta is well in the measurement noise.
Just get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When the C library being used is uClibc, the locale support can be
disabled. In this case, it does not make sense to show the "Generate
locales" option.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Generating locales is possible in two situations:
- With the internal toolchain backend, when the uClibc library is
used. With uClibc, locales are generated at build time of the C
library, so with uClibc it's only possible with the internal
toolchain backend.
- With either the internal or external toolchain backend when the
glibc library is used. With glibc, locales can be generated
afterwards, using the host-localedef utility.
Until we had the musl C library supported in the internal toolchain
backend, the condition: BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT ||
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC was correct to capture the above two
situations. Now that we have musl support in the internal toolchain
backend, then BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT is incorrect, and we should use
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_UCLIBC instead.
Basic locale support in musl has appeared in musl 1.1.4, but we are
not yet capable of generating the locale files for musl.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
It's now been replaced with BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS, annd all packages have
been changed to use that instead.
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>
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>
As reported in bug #7172 [0], setting BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS to a value
containing a $ sign can lead to unexpected results.
This is because it is very hard to know when the $ sign gets evaluated:
- in the Buildroot-level make
- in the shell called by the Buildroot-level make
- in the package's own build-system, either at configure time, in the
Makefile, in a shell in the Makefile...
So, it is very difficult to know how much escaping that would need.
A proposal is to use a shell variable to pass such values unmolested.
But it is not that simple either, since it still contains a $ sign, and
there is not much certainty as to when it would be evaluated.
Instead, just document this limitation, both in the help text for
BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS, and in the known-issues section in the manual.
Does not really fix#7172, but at least the limitation is documented.
[0] https://bugs.buildroot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7172
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Mike Zick <minimod@morethan.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The gconv libraries are used to translate between different character sets
('charsets', even 'csets' sometimes). Some packages need them to present
text to the user (eg. XBMC Gotham).
In (e)glibc they are implemented by the internal implemenation of iconv,
called gconv, and are provided as dlopen-able libraries.
Note that some gconv modules need extra libraries (shared by more than
one gconv module), so we must, when adding a subset of modules, scan the
installed modules in search of the missing libraries.
[Thomas: add general explanation in expunge-gconv-modules and fix
coding style.]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
Cc: Eric Limpens <limpens@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: fix BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_15 to select
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_14 and not itself.]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
MIPS nommu never took off, the only MIPS processors without MMU are
microcontrollers and the only uclinux effort for them has non-upstream
patches against very very old versions.
See http://www.xiptech.com/uclinuxformips.htm
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Ensure the kernel headers version used in the custom external toolchain,
or the manually-specified kernel headers version, matches exactly the one
selected by the user.
We do not care about the patch-level, since headers are not supposed to
change between patchlevels. This applies only to kernels >= 3.0, but
those are actually the ones we do care about; we treat all 2.6.x kernels
as being a single version, since we do not support any 2.6 kernels for
packages with kernel-dependant features.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
We now have quite a few packages that depend on the kernel headers to be
at least a certain version. For example, dvb-apps requires at least the
3.3 kernel headers.
Add a set of options that packages can depend on, to check that the kernel
headers match their required version.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
As our architecture support expands to a number of architectures that
do not implement NPTL threading, and the number of packages that
depend on NPTL specific features, it has become necessary to be able
to know whether the toolchain has NPTL support or not.
This commit adds a new BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL hidden Config.in
option that allows packages to know whether NPTL is available or not.
This hidden option is:
* Automatically enabled when glibc/eglibc or musl toolchains are
used, either internal or external.
* Automatically enabled when an internal uClibc toolchain with NPTL
support is configured. It is left disabled otherwise for internal
uClibc toolchains.
* Configured according to a visible Config.in option for custom
external uClibc toolchains.
[Peter: factor _EXTERNAL_HAS_THREADS in single if as suggested by Arnout]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
In order to avoid the work of converting the toolchain-crosstool-ng
logic to the package infrastructure, we remove it from Buildroot,
since it has been deprecated since quite some time.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit refactors how Stack Smashing Protection support is handled
in Buildroot:
*) It turns the BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_USE_SSP option into an option
that only enables the SSP support in uClibc, when using the internal
toolchain backend.
*) It adds an hidden BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SSP option that gets enabled
when the toolchain has SSP support. Here we have the usual dance:
glibc/eglibc in internal/external backend always select this
option, in the case of uClibc/internal, it gets selected when
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_USE_SSP is enabled, in the case of
uClibc/external, there is a new configuration option that the user
must select (or not) depending on whether the toolchain has SSP
support.
*) It adds a new options BR2_ENABLE_SSP in the "Build options" menu,
to enable the usage of SSP support, by adding
-fstack-protector-all to the CFLAGS.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As we are going to introduced a more advanced support of floating
point options for the ARM architecture, we need to adjust how the
soft-float option is handled. We replace the current hidden option
BR2_PREFER_SOFT_FLOAT option and the visible BR2_SOFT_FLOAT option by:
* A global hidden BR2_SOFT_FLOAT option, defined in arch/Config.in,
that tells whether the architecture-specific code is using software
emulated floating point. This hidden option can be used throughout
Buildroot to determine whether soft float is used or not.
* Per-architecture visible BR2_<arch>_SOFT_FLOAT options, for the
architecture for which it makes sense, which allows users to select
soft float emulation when needed.
This change will allow each architecture to have a different way of
presenting its floating point capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Currently, when we need to do a conditional on the type of C library
used, we need to take into account the three toolchain backends. As we
are going to add eglibc support to the Buildroot toolchain backend, it
would become even uglier, so this patch introduces two new hidden
options: BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC and BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC, that
exist regardless of the toolchain backend. The entire Buildroot code
base is converted to use those options.
Note that we have intentionally created only one option
(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC) for both glibc and eglibc, since they are
essentially the same, as far as Buildroot is concerned.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This commit converts gdb to the package infrastructure, and therefore
moves it from toolchain/gdb to package/gdb.
The target package is now visible in "Package selection for the
target" => "Debugging, profiling and benchmark". The main option,
"gdb", forcefully selects the "gdbserver" sub-option by
default. Another sub-option, "full debugger" allows to install the
complete gdb on the target. When this option is enabled, then
"gdbserver" is no longer forcefully selected. This ensures that at
least gdbserver or the full debugger gets built/installed, so that the
package is not a no-op.
The host debugger is still enabled through a configuration option in
"Toolchain". It is now visible regardless of the toolchain type (it
used to be hidden for External Toolchains). The configuration options
relative to the host debugger are now in package/gdb/Config.in.host,
similar to how we have package/binutils/Config.in.host.
Since gdb is now a proper package, it is no longer allowed to 'select
BR2_PTHREADS_DEBUG' to ensure thread debugging is available when
needed. Instead, it now 'depends on
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_DEBUG'. This option, in turn, is selected by
the different toolchain backends when appropriate. The
'BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_DEBUG_IF_NEEDED' option is removed, since
we no longer need to know when it is allowed to 'select
BR2_PTHREADS_DEBUG'. Also, the 'BR2_PTHREADS_DEBUG' option is moved to
appear right below the thread implementation selection (in the case of
the Buildroot toolchain backend).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The Eclipse plugin at
https://github.com/mbats/eclipse-buildroot-toolchain-plugin allows
users of Eclipse to easily use the toolchain available in
Buildroot. To do so, this plugin reads
~/.buildroot-eclipse.toolchains, which contains the list of Buildroot
toolchains available on the system, and then offer those toolchains to
compile Eclipse projects.
In order to interface with this plugin, this commit adds an option
that allows the user to tell whether (s)he wants the Buildroot project
toolchain to be visible under this Eclipse plugin. It simply adds a
line in this ~/.buildroot-eclipse.toolchains file.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The Xtensa architecture had been removed because it required special
handling and depended on additional directories and files that became
obsolete over time. This change is more aligned to other architectures.
[Thomas: rebased on top of the "arch: improve definition of gcc mtune,
mcpu, etc." patch].
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The BR2_INET_RPC has for a long time been a not very descriptive
configuration option name, and with the advent of non-RPC glibc
toolchains and the apparition of libtirpc, we really need to rename it
to something more sensible, BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As stated in commit 555c2585bf, the
Xtensa architecture has been introduced in 2009 and never changed
since its initial introduction. It requires some special handling that
is a bit annoying, and despite our call to the initial developers, and
the announcement of the deprecation of the architecture during the
2012.05, nothing has happened. Therefore, drop support for this
architecture.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: me
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Commit ba92d6ef68 made hard float the
default when Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9. The problem it was trying to fix
is that the newer Linaro toolchains (2012.05 and 2012.06) are
hard-float, so the default selection of soft-float enabled on ARM
doesn't work for those toolchains.
Unfortunately, not selecting soft-float causes problems with
the Crosstool-NG backend at the moment.
As an intermediate solution, make the soft float option disappear when
using external toolchain: the toolchain will decide by itself whether
to generate hard float or soft float code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 ARM cores are guaranteed to provide a hardware
floating point unit, so there's no reason to default to software
floating point for them.
More importantly, the newest Linaro toolchains are hard float
toolchains, so basically an user choosing those toolchains and leaving
the default option of software float would run in compilation issues.
So let's make hard float the default for Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
