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Yann E. MORIN
3e44065ab5 arch/arm: cortex-m7 may have a FPv5 FPU
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2018-05-20 19:15:07 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
7ee527dd91 arch/arm: cortex-m4 may have an FPv4 FPU
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2018-05-20 19:14:14 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
81d8a25bc8 arch/arm: add options for FPv5 FPU
Contrary to its older brother, the FPv5 comes in two flavours; single-
and double-precision [0] [1]. the two variants are only available for
cortex-m7 cores, and the two variants are known to gcc as fpv5-sp-d16
and fpv5-d16, respectively, since gcc-5 [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M#Cortex-M7
[1] https://developer.arm.com/docs/ddi0489/latest/floating-point-unit
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=a076f99fa702deac764f6e0441b9435ad999f521

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2018-05-20 19:06:55 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
09c6e28233 arch/arm: add option for FPv4 FPU
The FPv4-SP FPU is a single-precision FPU with 16 double registers [0]
[1]. It is only available for cortex-m4 cores, and is known to gcc as
fpv4-sp-d16 (note that there is no leading 'v') since gcc-4.5 [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M#Cortex-M4
[1] https://developer.arm.com/docs/ddi0439/latest/floating-point-unit
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=639cb7b789a54bf78d6ae5e2644450f5eb1837a6

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2018-05-20 19:06:07 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
7f7701301e arch/arm: introduce generic FPU internal option
Currently, we consider that any VFP FPU is a superset of VFPv2, and thus
we use VFPv2 as a way to detect that a VFP is used.

However, for Cortex-M cores, the optional FPU is not a superset of
VFPv2; it is even not a VFP [0].

As a consequence, we can no longer consider VFPv2 as a indication that
an FPU is present.

So, we introduce two new internal options, BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_FPU and
BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_FPU, which we use to consider the presence of an FPU.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M#Cortex-M4

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2018-05-20 19:01:34 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
6edfa3bf78 arch/arm: add cortex-m7 core
Nothing fancy, just a plain Cortex-M, armv7-M core...

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2018-05-20 18:57:18 +02:00
Ricardo Martincoski
7e26b8886b arch/Config.in*: fix attributes order
... 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>
2018-04-01 07:59:45 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
ae2ec0ed74 arch/arm: default to Cortex-A53 for AArch64
Since we re-organised the list of cores (in 52d500aa35) and introduced
some new cores (in e9960da6ec, d632d9e5a9, 6317a199ec), the default for
AArch64 was accidently changed from A53 to A35.

So, restore the default to A53 for AArch64.

Reported-by: daggs <daggs@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: daggs <daggs@gmx.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-12-07 22:39:44 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
6317a199ec arch/arm: add armv8.1a cores
The armv8.1a generation is a cumulative extension to armv8a. It adds new
extensions, and makes some previously optional ones now mandatory.

Since gcc correctly enables the appropriate extensions based on the core
name, we don't really need to introduce a separate config for armv8.1a,
and we can piggyback on armv8a.

All those new cores are aarch64 only (gcc fails to build in arm mode).

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>
2017-11-24 23:30:43 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
d632d9e5a9 arch/arm: add some non-cortex armv8a cores
Some need gcc-5, some gcc-6 and some gcc-7.

The thunderx familly does not build in 32-bit mode (gcc complains
that the CPU is unknown, and even gcc master only knows them as
aarch64-only).

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>
2017-11-24 23:30:36 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
e9960da6ec arch/arm: add some armv8a cortex variants
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>
2017-11-24 23:18:08 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
ffc9d60243 arch/arm: add cortex-A32
The cortex-A32 is an armv8a core, but it lacks the optional AArch64
extensions, so can only work in 32-bit mode.

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>
2017-11-24 23:11:52 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
003b1f3c74 arch/arm: armv8 is really armv8a
For armv8, there are different profiles: A, M and R, like there is for
armv7.

So, rename our internal symbol to mirror what we do for armv7.

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>
2017-11-24 23:01:41 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
a9f95de2c0 arch/arm: simplify hiding non 64-bit cores
Now that the cores are all oredered correctly, we can just enclose all
the non 64-bit cores inside a big if-block, rather than have each of
them have the dependency.

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>
2017-11-24 23:01:03 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
52d500aa35 arch/arm: re-order cores choice
Currently, the logic for ordering the ARM cores in the choice is all
but obvious. ;-)

Reorder the choice by architecture generation, starting with armv4,
ending with armv8.

Add a comment before each generation, just for ease of use. Add a
separate comment for armv7a and armv7m.

Finally, order cores alphabetically inside the same generation (except
for armv7m cores, listed after all armv7a cores).

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>
2017-11-24 23:00:37 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
d08ccb40f5 arch/arm: some variants need different gcc versions
Take the conditions currently specified in the gcc version choice.

Also, the conditions explained in the commit log for 78c2a9f7 were not
all properly applied, especially the a57-a53 combo needs gcc-6, but
78c2a9f7 forgot to add the condition to gcc-4.9.

gcc-4.9 was excluded for cortex-a17 and a72, but the CodeSourcery
external toolchain, which uses 4.8, was not excluded for those two
cores. Now it is.

Remove the arch condition from gcc and the external toolchains.

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>
2017-11-24 22:19:14 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
78c2a9f763 arch/arm: add big.LITTLE cpu variants
The big.LITTLE configurations can be optimised for by gcc, and a few
users wonder what they should choose when they have such CPUs.

Add new entries for those big.LITTLE configurations.

Note: the various combos were added in various gcc versions, but only
really worked in later versions:

    Variant   | Introduced in | First built in
    ----------+---------------+----------------
    a15-a7    | 4.9           | 4.9
    a17-a7    | 5             | 5
    a57-a53   | 4.9           | 6
    a72-a53   | 5             | 6

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-22 23:29:24 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
9d06e91df8 arch/arm: fix -mcpu default values for AArch64
We have to specify the -mcpu value, even in 64-bit mode.

For AArch64, +fp and +simd are the default, so they are totally useless.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-10 18:04:16 +02:00
Bernd Kuhls
cc405b4cb3 arch, linux, package: remove whitespaces
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>
2017-03-29 23:30:37 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d04ea6e4e8 arch: add BR2_READELF_ARCH_NAME hidden config option
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>
2017-03-20 22:22:17 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
933732b82b arch/Config.in.arm: support thumb2 instructions for ARMv8 in 32bit mode
The ARMv8 cores all support thumb2 instructions when running in aarch32 mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-08 22:32:17 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
0976cd6cd6 arch/Config.in.arm: only enable BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_NEON for ARMv8 in 32bit mode
A number of packages use BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_NEON to know if the target handles
aarch32 neon instructions, which is only true for ARMv8 cores when they are
running in 32bit mode.

Notice: These cores do support neon-like instructions using a different
encoding in 64bit mode (it is a required part of ARMv8, similar to the FPU).

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-08 22:32:16 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
6d97af8763 arch/Config.in.arm: only enable BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_ARM for ARMv8 in 32bit mode
Fixes:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/5e6/5e67cc067a06f7364cde1a8393ea72608fe7fef1/

A number of packages use BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_ARM to know if the target handles
classic A32 instructions, which is only true for ARMv8 cores when they are
running in 32bit mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-08 22:32:14 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
2131f1b381 arch/Config.in.arm: add Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72
Add two popular ARM64 cores to the list of supported cores: Cortex-A57
and Cortex-A72.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-05 23:07:14 +01:00
Matt Flax
785a73fb8f arch/Config.in.arm: Add Cortex-A53 CPU
Adds the Cortex-A53 CPU to the target architecture variant choice. This
sets the toolchain to use Cortex-A53 as the target. The effect is that
various Cortex-A53 tunings are enabled for the compilation of packages.

Signed-off-by: Matt Flax <flatmax@flatmax.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-05 23:07:13 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5e8cb2ee75 arch/Config.in.arm: specify ABI for ARM64
There's currently only one widely supported ABI for ARM64, called lp64,
so we define BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI to the appropriate value.

Note that there is another ABI for ARM64 being worked on, ilp32, but its
support is not fully upstream in the kernel, so we're not adding support
for it for the moment.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-05 23:07:11 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d690b7444a arch/Config.in.arm: add FPU related options for ARMv8 cores
The ARMv8 cores have a mandatory FPU unit called FP-ARMv8, so we:

 - add a new hidden Config.in option for the availability of this
   unit (BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_FP_ARMV8)

 - allow the selection of a possible choice in the "Floating point
   strategy", and add two new choices: BR2_ARM_FPU_FP_ARMV8 and
   BR2_ARM_FPU_NEON_FP_ARMV8.

 - specify the -mfpu values for BR2_ARM_FPU_FP_ARMV8 and
   BR2_ARM_FPU_NEON_FP_ARMV8 cases, when used on ARM 32 bits (-mfpu
   doesn't exist on ARM64, instead -mcpu modifiers are used, so they
   will be added on a per-core basis).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: drop the FP strategy dependency]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-05 23:07:10 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
743e663912 arch/arm: drop legacy dependency for floating point strategy
The floating point strategy currently depends on EABI || EABIHF. The
reason was that, wayback when we also supported OABI, we only exposed FP
for EABI or EABIHF, and hide it for OABI, which did not support FP.

It's been a while now that we do not support OABI, but the dependency
stuck all along.

Remove it as it is no longer needed, and is always true.

However, the choice is empty for AArch64, as we still have no entry for
their floating point strategy yet.

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>
2016-12-05 23:07:09 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
c37189b35e arch/Config.in.arm: add BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV8
In order to prepare the addition of ARM64 cores, add the blind
BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV8 option.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-05 23:07:08 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
1b61cd38cd arch/Config.in.arm: prepare addition of 64 bits cores
Until now the "Target Architecture Variant" choice was not visible on
AArch64. In order to prepare the addition of the 64 bits core to this
choice, this commit adds a "depends on !BR2_ARCH_IS_64" dependency to
all currently supported cores (that are 32 bits only).

Following this commit, the "Target Architecture Variant" choice appears
on AArch64, but is for now empty.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-05 23:07:07 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
8b7d8b4a4e arch: merge Config.in.aarch64 into Config.in.arm
The 64 bits ARM processors are capable of running 32 bits ARM code, and
some platforms are indeed using this capability. Due to this, if we were
to keep the separation between Config.in.aarch64 and Config.in.arm, we
would have to duplicate the definition of all 64-bits capable ARM cores
into both files.

Instead of going down this route, let's take the same route as the x86
one: a single Config.in.x86 file, used for both x86 32 bits and x86 64
bits, with the appropriate logic to only show the relevant cores
depending on which architecture is selected.

In order to do this, we:

 - Make the "ARM instruction set" choice only visible on ARM 32 bits,
   since we currently don't support ARM vs. Thumb on AArch64.

 - Add the relevant values for the BR2_ARCH option.

 - Add the relevant values for the BR2_ENDIAN option.

 - Make the "aapcs-linux" BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI value only used on ARM 32
   bits, since this ABI doesn't mean anything on AArch64.

 - Make the BR2_GCC_TARGET_FPU option depends on ARM 32 bits, since
   there is no -mfpu option on AArch64.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-05 23:07:05 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4724343236 arch/arm: add Cortex-M4 entry
This commit adds the option to select the Cortex-M4 ARM core, in the
same family as Cortex-M3. This will be useful to enable the internal
toolchain backend for this ARM core, and provide some defconfigs for
Cortex-M4 platforms.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-03-20 15:37:30 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
41bcc440b1 arch/arm: Cortex-M3 provides only Thumb-2
The Cortex-M cores only support Thumb-2, not Thumb. In fact, Thumb-2
is a superset of Thumb, and we could have a single option for both in
Buildroot, since -mthumb on ARMv4/v5 means original Thumb, while
-mthumb on ARMv7 means Thumb 2. However, for clarity, it makes sense
to have two separate options. But in this case, Cortex-M3 should not
advertise that it supports Thumb, as in fact selecting Thumb would
generate Thumb-2 code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-03-20 15:37:24 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a5152f0cb0 arch/arm: introduce and use BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV7M
All ARM cores should select a BR2_ARM_CPU_* option. Currently, the
cortex-m3 does not, which this commit fixes by introducing a
BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV7M option.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-03-20 15:37:07 +01:00
Ezequiel García
027b7ca0f2 arch/arm: add the cortex A17 variant supported by gcc 5.x
Add the Cortex A17 variant. This core is considered a replacement
of the Cortex A12 and is supported by gcc 5 / binutils 2.25+

Suggested-by: Ross Green <greenfross@netscape.net>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-02-22 09:31:42 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4a3f597a0e arch: remove BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS option
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>
2016-02-06 11:16:00 +01:00
Sergi Granell
449d7b9127 Add ARM11 MPCore CPU target support
gcc differentiates the mpcore-with-vfp from the mcpore-without-vfp
CPUs. The former is named just 'mpcore', while the latter is named
'mpcorenovfp'.

We only add one entry, 'mpcore' and let the user select whether or
not to use the VFP. We then name the CPU according to the user's
selection.

Signed-off-by: Sergi Granell <xerpi.g.12@gmail.com>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-01-03 22:35:22 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
bb02e4c0b3 arch/arm: add help text to BR2_ARM_ENABLE_VFP
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-12-27 12:22:43 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
110fecf1f5 arch/arm: only expose VFP in FP strategy when the CPU *has* a VFP unit
There's no point in offering the user an option to select an FP strategy
when the CPU does not actually have a VFP unit.

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>
2015-12-27 12:17:48 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
b08723087d arch/arm: only expose EABIhf when the CPU *has* a VFP unit
There's no point in offering the user an option to select EABIhf when
the CPU does not really have a VFP unit.

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>
2015-12-27 12:17:36 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
f52692ed64 arch/arm: add option to enable an optional VFP unit
Currently, the VFP selection for ARM is a little bit muddy:
  - some CPUs definitely do not have a VFP or NEON,
  - some CPUs definitely do have a VFP or NEON,
  - some CPUs may have a VFP or NEON.

However, we currently conflate the availability of the VFP/NEON with the
possibility to use them. Even is the user chooses a floating point
strategy with a 'lower' solution (i.e. VFPv2 when a VFPv3 exists, or not
using NEON when the CPU has it), some packages are still using the
CPU-defined HW availaibility rather thean the usr's selection.

Furthermore, for CPU that may have a VFP/NEON, there is no way for the
user to actually specify that the HW is indeed available; the user can
only specify the floating point strategy. This means that some packages
or some package versions, like nodejs for example, can not be properly
selected on some CPU cores, like Cortex-A9 which only may have a VFP.

Like we have an option to enable an optional NEON unit, add a similar
option to enable an optional VFP unit.

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>
2015-12-27 12:17:23 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
b64bcbf5f2 arch/arm: reorder NEON option
Stating whether to use the NEON extensions when it is optional in the
CPU really is completing the definition of the CPU we've just selected.

Move the ENABLE_NEON option just after the choice of the CPU variant,
and before any "software" option (ABI/VFP).

This will make sense in a moment, when we introduce a similar option for
enabling an optional VFP unit.

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>
2015-12-27 12:16:45 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
e4b1fa69cd arch/arm: VFP and Thumb1 are not compatible
gcc will refuse to build with both --with-mode=thumb and --with-fpu=vfp,
with error messages during ./configure, like:

    checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/ymor
    in/dev/buildroot/O/build/host-gcc-initial-4.9.3/build/arm-buildroot-lin
    ux-uclibcgnueabihf/libgcc':
    configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
    See `config.log' for more details.

And config.log informatively contains:

    sorry, unimplemented: Thumb-1 hard-float VFP ABI

This is an error message that comes deep from gcc source files.

If gcc says it does not support VFP with Thumb1, then let's disable that
combination in our menuconfig.

Prefer VFP over Thumb1, i.e. hide Thumb1 when we're not soft-float.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-03 23:50:01 +01:00
Benoît Thébaudeau
cc0773f2a8 arch/arm: use EABIhf by default with VFP
Set EABIhf as the default target ABI for the ARM processors that have or
may have a VFP unit, since this ABI is the most efficient in that case.
Of course, EABI can still be selected manually if needed.

[Peter: only default to EABIHF when we are sure the CPU has a VFP]
Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-10-25 19:56:20 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
7deaa277fd arch/arm: add missing arm1136j-s variant
Identical to arm1136jf-s, except that is doesn't have a vfp unit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-08-24 00:43:12 +02:00
Guido Martínez
9971ebfe9d arm: update processor types
Add the Cortex M3 variant. These microcontrollers don't support regular
ARM instructions and don't have an MMU.

Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-06-28 14:32:25 +02:00
Guido Martínez
29563047e0 arch: tidy up mmu config
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>
2015-06-09 22:49:39 +02:00
Guido Martínez
a87f5806ed arm: conditionally support regular ARM instructions
Until now, all ARM processors supported the original ARM instructions.
However, the Cortex-M variants don't support them, and support only
Thumb/Thumb2 modes.

So, make a Kconfig option for ARM support and use it.

[Thomas:
  - Remove the dependency in the choice between ARM/Thumb/Thumb-2,
    because basically the choice is now always visible.
  - Replace the BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM_CHOICE choice option directly
    by BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM, instead of having this blind option
    defined separately. This means the choice is now always visible,
    even when only the ARM instruction set is supported.]

Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-02-02 18:32:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
fd828fd98f arch/arm: remove BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH definitions on ARM
On ARM, we were defining both the CPU type and the architecture
variant. However, depending on the version of gcc, a given combination
of (CPU, architecture) may not be the same. Since the architecture
variant is implied by the CPU type, given the former is not necessary,
and we can simply specify the latter.

>From the gcc documentation:

  This specifies the name of the target ARM processor. GCC uses this
  name to derive the name of the target ARM architecture (as if
  specified by -march) and the ARM processor type for which to tune
  for performance (as if specified by -mtune). Where this option is
  used in conjunction with -march or -mtune, those options take
  precedence over the appropriate part of this option.

Note that we verified that for all BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH value that
existed, a proper BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU value is defined.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:07:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
24dfbe71e0 arch/arm: do not distinguish revisions of ARM1136JF-S
In commit 88cf3bb917
("arch/Config.in.arm: Use armv6k for arm1136jf-s rev1"), Benoît
Thébaudeau added separate options for the revision 0 and revision 1 of
the ARM1136JF-S processor, so that different -march values could be
used (armv6j for revision 0, armv6k for revision 1).

However, this is preventing the removal of the BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH
option, which we need to do to give only the CPU type to gcc, and let
it decide the architecture variant that matches. This is because this
story of revision 0 vs. revision 1 is the only case where -mcpu
doesn't fully define the CPU.

Moreover, a quick test with gcc shows that -march=armv6j
-mcpu=arm1136jf-s is accepted, while -march=armv6k -mcpu=arm1136jf-s
makes gcc complain: " warning: switch -mcpu=arm1136jf-s conflicts with
-march=armv6k switch".

In addition, gcc 5 will apparently no longer allow to pass all of
--with-arch, --with-cpu and --with-tune, so we will anyway have to
rely only on one of them.

As a consequence, this commit basically reverts
88cf3bb917 and provides only one option
for ARM1136JF-S. If the two revisions are really different, then they
should be supported in upstream gcc with different -mcpu values.

Note that the removal of the two options should not break existing
full .config, since the hidden option BR2_arm1136jf_s becomes again a
visible option to select the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-11-07 00:05:11 +01:00