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>
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>
The compiler recognizes a specific 'march' value for Octeon III processors,
so create a 'Target Architecture Variant' entry for it in the target menu.
Note: support for '-march=octeon3' was added in gcc 5.x. However, the
official compiler provided by Marvell (Cavium Networks) uses gcc 4.7.x (and
supports -march=octeon3 via their own modifications). For this reason, no
line 'select BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_5' is added.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The compiler recognizes a specific 'march' value for Octeon II processors,
so create a 'Target Architecture Variant' entry for it in the target menu.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
It's unclear why Buildroot only defined MIPS 32/64 releases 1, 2, 5 and 6
while 3 exists as well.
Interesting fact:
"Release 4 was skipped because the number four is perceived as unlucky in
many Asian cultures."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#MIPS32/MIPS64
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
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>
Currently, the possibility to choose the floating point mode (32, xx or
64) is conditional on having a sufficiently recent gcc version.
Which means that the architecture selection depends on the gcc version.
But that's opposite to what we've always done in Buildroot: the software
versions are conditional to the architecture options. There is nothing
we can do about the hardware: it is there, we can't change it, while we
can restrict ourselves to using software that is working on said
hardware.
Thus, we inverse the logic, to move the condition onto the software
side: whenever mfpxx is selected, we restrict the toolchain selection to
at least a gcc-5.
And now, the blind BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_MFPXX_OPTION symbol is no longer
needed, so we get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently the possibility to choose the NaN encoding is conditional to
having a sufficiently recent gcc version.
Which means that the architecture selection depends on the gcc version.
But that's opposite to what we've always done in Buildroot: the software
versions are conditional to the architecture options. There is nothing
we can do about the hardware: it is there, we can't change it, while we
can restrict ourselves to using software that is working on said
hardware.
Thus, we inverse the logic, to move the condition onto the software
side: whenever NaN-2008 are selected, we restrict the toolchain
selection to at least a gcc-4.9.
But now, the option with the NaN type is always set, so we must enclose
the code in gcc.mk inside a HAS_NAN_OPTION condition, as is already done
for the external toolchain case.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
We use the conditions currently expressed in the gcc version choice.
We leave the musl vs mips64 conditions in gcc, because the "fault"
really is on gcc, which does not recognise the mips64+musl tuples,
so the fix lies within gcc, and the current conditions are fitting.
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>
Some cores are not supported by upstream gcc.
Use the newly-introduced symbol to state so, rather than have the
exclusion in the toolchain choice.
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>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
-mfpxx option was added in gcc-5.1.0 so make sure that users cannot
select the "xx" fp32 mode when using toolchains that have a gcc older
than 5.1.0.
-mfp32 and -mfp64 were added in gcc-4.1.0, so given the older gcc
version we support in Buildroot (in the GCC_AT_LEAST options) is 4.3 we
don't need to do anything else for them.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
-mnan option was added in gcc-4.9.0 so make sure that users cannot
select the NaN mode when using toolchains that have a gcc older
than 4.9.0, and also make sure that the -mnan option is not passed at
all to the toolchain-wrapper and target cflags.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
MIPS32 support different FP modes (32,xx,64), so give the user the
opportunity to choose between them. That will cause host-gcc to be built
using the --with-fp-32=[32|xx|64] configure option. Also the
-mfp[32|xx|64] gcc option will be added to TARGET_CFLAGS and to the
toolchain wrapper.
FP mode option shouldn't be used for soft-float, so we add logic in the
toolchain wrapper if -msoft-float is among the arguments in order to not
append the -fp[[32|xx|64] option, otherwise the compilation may fail.
Information about FP modes here:
- https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/MIPS-Options.html
- https://dmz-portal.imgtec.com/wiki/MIPS_O32_ABI_-_FR0_and_FR1_Interlinking#5._Generating_modeless_code
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
MIPS supports two different NaN encodings, legacy and 2008. Information
about MIPS NaN encodings can be found here:
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/MIPS-NaN-Encodings.html
NaN legacy is the only option available for R2 cores and older.
NaN 2008 is the only option available for R6 cores.
R5 cores can have either NaN legacy or NaN 2008, depending on the
implementation. So, if the user selects a generic R5 target architecture
variant, we show a choice menu with both options available. For well
known R5 cores we directly select the NaN enconding they use.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Whitespaces were searched using the following regex:
[ ]{1,}\t
and then manually removed in most of the cases. For
xserver_xorg-server.mk, tabs before backslashes were removed.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.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>
m6201 is the -march option for GCC, but the real core name is
M6250.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
m5101 is the -march option for GCC, but the real core name is M5150.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This is a microcontroller class (MCU) core which is not suitable for
running Linux.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The Ingenic XBurst is a MIPS32R2 microprocessor.
It has a bug in the FPU that can generate incorrect results in certain
cases. The problem shows up when you have several fused madd
instructions in sequence with dependant operands.
Using the -mno-fused-madd option prevents gcc from emitting these
instructions. This patch adds changes to the toolchain wrapper to use
that option.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
-march=m6201 is not yet supported in GCC upstream, so disabling all
versions when selecting this core.
Note that M6201 implies a MIPS R6 CPU, and some GCC versions are already
disabled for R6, so we don't need to disable those ones for M6201 as
well.
The external Codescape IMG GNU Linux Toolchain has support for this
core.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
-march=p6600 is not yet supported in GCC upstream, so disabling all
versions when selecting this core.
Note that P6600 implies a MIPS R6 CPU, and some GCC versions are already
disabled for R6, so we don't need to disable those ones for P6600 as
well.
The external Codescape IMG GNU Linux Toolchain has support for this
core.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
-march=i6400 support starts from GCC-6, so disable previous versions
when selecting this core.
Note that I6400 implies a MIPS R6 CPU, and some GCC versions are already
disabled for R6, so we don't need to disable those ones for I6400 as
well.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
-march=m5101 support starts from GCC-6, so disable previous versions
when selecting this core.
Note that M5101 implies a MIPS R5 CPU, and some GCC versions are already
disabled for R5, so we don't need to disable those ones for M5101 as
well.
Also disable external toolchains that don't support this core.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
-march=m5100 support starts from GCC-6, so disable previous versions
when selecting this core.
Note that M5100 implies a MIPS R5 CPU, and some GCC versions are already
disabled for R5, so we don't need to disable those ones for M5100 as
well.
Also disable external toolchains that don't support this core.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
-march=interaptiv support starts from GCC-6, so disable previous
versions when selecting this core.
Also disable external toolchains that don't support this core.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
-march=mips64r5 support started from GCC-5, so disable previous versions
when the CPU is R5.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
-march=mips32r5 support started from GCC-5, so disable previous versions
when the CPU is R5.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Meant to be used by the target architecture variants.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.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>
- 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>
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>
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>
Building o32 ELF files for MIPS64 is an exotic configuration that nobody
should be using. If o32 is required, then is better if it's built for
MIPS 32-bit cores so only 32-bit instructions will be used leading to a
more efficient o32 usage.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
In order to keep better track of when a feature got deprecated, and hence
when it can be removed, a new set of symbols BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx is
introduced. These symbols are automatically selected when BR2_DEPRECATED is
selected, and thus are transparent to the user.
A deprecated feature will no longer depend on BR2_DEPRECATED directly, but
rather on the appropriate BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx. If that symbol does
not yet exist, it has to be created in Config.in.
When removing a deprecated feature, one should also check whether this was
the last feature using the BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx symbol, in which
case the latter can be removed from Config.in.
A followup patch will make sure the overview is added to the list of
deprecated features in the manual, so that a buildroot core developer can
easily determine which features to remove in a given development cycle.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently you can select MIPS64 ISAs, like mips64 and mips64r2, for
MIPS32 targets. This is incorrect, so we disable the possibility to do
that.
Reviewed-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <vincent.riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Deprecate old MIPS ISAs since they are rarely used anymore and they cause
multiple build problems for new packages
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
On some architectures one can be running a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit
userland. Such is the case for sparc64 (unsupported) for example and
mips64 with n32 ABI.
Some tools that interface directly with the kernel need to be built
specially for this, so introduce this symbol to tweak their build in
one central kludge to be future-proof.
Example: bug #6602.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Set --with-arch instead of --with-tune for MIPS so that the
generated code will be optimal for the given MIPS ISA.
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.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>
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>
