The variable 'KERNEL_ARCH' is actually a normalized version of
'ARCH'/'BR2_ARCH'. For example, 'arcle' and 'arceb' both become 'arc', just
as all powerpc variants become 'powerpc'.
It is presumably called 'KERNEL_ARCH' because the Linux kernel is typically
the first place where support for a new architecture is added, and thus is
the entity that defines the normalized name.
However, the term 'KERNEL_ARCH' can also be interpreted as 'the architecture
used by the kernel', which need not be exactly the same as 'the normalized
name for a certain arch'. In particular, for cases where a 64-bit
architecture is running a 64-bit kernel but 32-bit userspace. Examples
include:
* aarch64 architecture, with aarch64 kernel and 32-bit (ARM) userspace
* x86_64 architecture, with x86_64 kernel and 32-bit (i386) userspace
In such cases, the 'architecture used by the kernel' needs to refer to the
64-bit name (aarch64, x86_64), whereas all userspace applications need to
refer the, potentially normalized, 32-bit name.
This means that there need to be two different variables:
KERNEL_ARCH: the architecture used by the kernel
NORMALIZED_ARCH: the normalized name for the current userspace architecture
At this moment, both will actually have the same content. But a subsequent
patch will add basic support for situations described above, in which
KERNEL_ARCH may become overwritten to the 64-bit architecture, while
NORMALIZED_ARCH needs to remain the same (32-bit) case.
This commit replaces use of KERNEL_ARCH where actually the userspace arch is
needed. Places that use KERNEL_ARCH in combination with building of kernel
modules are not touched.
There may be cases where a package builds both a kernel module as userspace,
in which case it may need to know about both KERNEL_ARCH and
NORMALIZED_ARCH, for the case where they differ. But this is to be fixed on
a per-need basis.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
[Arnout: Also rename BR2_KERNEL_ARCH to BR2_NORMALIZED_ARCH]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Similar to other arch-specific strings, the 'KERNEL_ARCH' variable can be
determined from Config.in.<arch> files.
Besides aligning with similar strings, this also means simplification: the
big 'sed' covers several architectures not even supported by Buildroot.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
gcc target abi options for powerpc were added by [1] and renamed by [2]
to BR2_PPC_ABI_* but never used. Since always BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI is empty
when using a powerpc toolchain.
Buildroot currently support SPE and Classic target ABI, nothing seems
to require a specific gcc target abi option.
This patch is a cleanup like commit [3].
[1] 7d8a59b40e
[2] 98175bd43d
[3] fd08153b9d
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
It is too sad when an editor picks up the wrong syntax...
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
... to follow the convention: type, default, depends on, select, help.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This config option corresponds to the string returned by readelf for
the "Machine" field of the ELF header. It will be used to check if the
architecture of binaries built by Buildroot match the target
architecture.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This enables powerpc64 and powerpc64le. Currently, le needs at least
glibc 2.19 and gcc 4.9.0. For gdb, 7.7.1 works (added in an earlier
patch).
[Peter: also disallow gcc 4.8 for ppc64le]
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch adds support for powerpc64le-linux-gnu. This includes
needed patches to fakeroot and gmp.
gmp patch is from upstream HG tree.
fakeroot patch is from Ubuntu written by Adam Conrad.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
Update the powerpc processor types.
Remove the 801, it's the original IBM experimental implementation.
Add the 464, 464fp, 476 and 476fp cores.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Suggested by Yann E. Morin.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reported-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As suggested by Yann E. Morin, there is a better way than our current
big Config.in.common to define the gcc mtune, mcpu, march,
etc. values. We can split the setting of those values in each
architecture file, which makes a lot more sense.
Therefore, the Config.in file now creates empty kconfig variables
BR2_ARCH, BR2_ENDIAN, BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE, BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH,
BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI and BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU. The values of those
variables are set by the individual Config.in.<arch> files. This is
possible because such files are now only conditionally included
depending on the top-level architecture that has been selected.
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 <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
target/Config.in.arch had become too long, and we want to remove the
target/ directory. So let's move it to arch/ and split it this way:
* An initial Config.in that lists the top-level architecture, and
sources the arch-specific Config.in.<arch> files, as well as
Config.in.common (see below)
* One Config.in.<arch> per architecture, listing the CPU families,
ABI choices, etc.
* One Config.in.common that defines the gcc mtune, march, mcpu values
and other hidden options.
[Peter: space->tab fix, mipsel64 little endian, mips3 as noted by Arnout]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
