The AVR32 architecture from Atmel is obsolete since a long time, not
supported upstream in most of the toolchain components (requires a
special version of gcc, an old version of uClibc, etc.). Until
February, Simon Dawson was making an excellent job at maintaining
AVR32 in Buildroot, and fixing all the issues caused by this
architecture. However, Simon focus has changed, and despite his call
for a new maintainer for AVR32 in Buildroot, nobody stepped up.
The issue of maintaining AVR32 is becoming worse and worse, so this
patch proposes to deprecate it for 2014.08, but keeping the support
around, to remove it for sure in 2014.11.
Cc: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
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>
The toolchain currently doesn't build for nommu ARM and is in need of
serious work.
Problem is there are no emulation targets and real ARM(7TDMI/720T/740T)
hardware that's capable of running linux (enough memory, having a
memory controller...) is VERY rare and uses very old versions to
make it usable.
The ARM nommu focus should go into Cortex M series processors that are
obtainable at reasonable cost on modern hardware that has external
memory controllers.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
gcc support was added in version 4.6:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html
Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Update the arm processor types: add the cortex A12 variant supported by
gcc 4.9.x
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
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>
Buildroot toolchain creates big endian binaries instead of little endian
ones for microblaze architecture. The reason is wrong BR2_ARCH string.
KERNEL_ARCH must contain microblaze in both cases.
Signed-off-by: Jan Drazil <xdrazi00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <xvikto03@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Tested-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch removes the sh2, sh3 and sh3eb support, because the user
base is inexistent, and the Linux support for these architectures is
poor. The sh2a support is preserved, because at least one user
expressed interest in this architecture, and is actually using it:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2013-April/070399.html
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Probably due to some copy/paste mistake, Config.in.sh was defining
BR2_ENDIAN to "LITTLE" when the architecture is BR2_x86_64. Due to the
fact that Config.in.sh is never included when we are building for
x86_64, this is a no-op, but is certainly good to clean up.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This follow-up commit adds support for SSE 4 and SSE 4.2 to
the jaguar architecture.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Béraud <adrien.beraud@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
AMD Jaguar ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_%28microarchitecture%29 ) is
suddenly a popular architecture since it is used in the PS4 and the XBox One.
Many embedded systems are also likely to use it in the next years.
This patch adds support for GCC architecture-specific optimisations and
tuning for these CPUs.
These optimizations are available with GCC 4.8+.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Beraud <adrien.beraud@savoirfairelinux.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>
Currently, the ARM Config.in logic specifies values for
--with-arch/-march and --with-tune/-mtune, but not for
--with-cpu/-mcpu. However, this causes problems on ARMv4, because
specifying --with-arch=armv4t isn't enough to make gcc generate ARMv4
code: one should also pass --with-cpu=<some ARMv4 CPU>.
Moreover, since Buildroot is generally designed to generate code
specifically for the configured target, it makes sense to give our own
--with-cpu/-mcpu value instead of relying on the default value used by
gcc, and only do small optimizations with -mtune.
Reported-by: Adam Hussein <kryme76@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
All packages use github now.
This reverts commit 1445b7fd2e.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Drop stale v9/ultrasparc/niagara variants.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.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>
As suggested by Alexander Lukichev and Thomas Petazzoni on the mailing list,
only one of the two avr32 microarchitectures is relevant for Buildroot:
avr32 Linux implies the avr32b microarchitecure, as used in the ap7000.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.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>
Currently, all target options lie in the top-level menu.
This looks a bit clumsy, since all other options are neatly
folded into their own sematic sub-menus each.
Move the target option into their own sub-menu too.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This commit adds very basic support to build for the Nios II
architecture. Toolchain support is still missing and instead
we need to use an external custom toolchain.
Notice that this architecture had been previously removed in
Buildroot 2010.05-rc1 release (as explained in the CHANGES file)
and this commit adds it back.
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Commit 6b3a0417c4 ('arch/arm: arm926 may have VFP') forgot to update
the help text of the VFPv2 option to mention ARMv5. This commit fixes
that.
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>
Until now, we were using the default ARM instruction set, as used by
the toolchain: the 32 bits ARM instruction set for the internal
backend, and for external toolchain, whatever default was chosen when
the toolchain was generated.
This commit adds support for the Thumb2 instruction set. To do so, it:
* provides a menuconfig choice between ARM and Thumb2. The choice is
only shown when Thumb2 is supported, i.e on ARMv7-A CPUs.
* passes the --with-mode={arm,thumb} option when building gcc in the
internal backend. This tells the compiler which type of
instructions it should generate.
* passes the m{arm,thumb} option in the external toolchain
wrapper. ARM and Thumb2 code can freely be mixed together, so the
fact that the C library has been built either ARM or Thumb2 and
that the rest of the code is built Thumb2 or ARM is not a problem.
[Peter: fix empty BR2_GCC_TARGET_MODE check]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This commit introduces the support for the EABIhf ABI, next to the
existing support we have for EABI and OABI (even though OABI support
is deprecated). EABIhf allows to improve performance of floating point
workload by using floating point registers to transfer floating point
arguments when calling functions, instead of using integer registers
to do, as is done in the 'softfp' floating point model of EABI.
In addition to this, this commit introduces a list of options for the
floating point support:
* Software floating point
* VFP
* VFPv3
* VFPv3-D16
* VFPv4
* VFPv4-D16
and it introduces some logic to make sure the options are only visible
when it makes sense, depending on the ARM core being selected. This is
however made complicated by the fact that certain VFP capabilities are
mandatory on some cores, but optional on some other cores. The kconfig
logic tries to achieve the following goals:
* Hide options that are definitely not possible.
* Use safe default values (i.e for Cortex-A5 and A7, the presence of
the VFPv4 unit is optional, so we default on software floating
point on these cores)..
* Show the available possibilities, even if some of them are not
necessarily working on a particular core (again, for the Cortex-A5
and A7 cores, there is no way of knowing whether the particular
variant used by the user has VFPv4 or not, so we select software
floating point by default, but still show VFP/VFPv3/VFPv4 options).
It is worth noting that this commit doesn't add support for all
possible -mfpu= values on ARM. We haven't added support for fpa, fpe2,
fpe3, maverick (those four are only used on very old ARM cores), for
vfpv3-fp16, vfpv3-d16-fp16, vfpv3xd, vfpv3xd-fp16, neon-fp16,
vfpv4-sp-d16. They can be added quite easily if needed thanks to the
new organization of the Config.in options.
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>
Buildroot already has the BR2_GCC_TARGET_{TUNE,ARCH,ABI,CPU} hidden
kconfig strings that allow per-architecture Config.in files to feed
the appropriate values of --with-{tune,arch,abi-cpu} when building
gcc, or the appropriate flags for the external toolchain wrapper.
This commit has two additional options:
BR2_GCC_TARGET_{FPU,FLOAT_ABI}, that allows to define the
--with-{fpu,float} gcc configure options for the internal backend, or
the -m{fpu,float-abi} options for the flags of the external toolchain
wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
OABI is more than legacy, it's dead.
New developments should go with EABI, since it so much better.
>From the Debian EABI page [0] :
- floating point performance, with or without an FPU is very much faster
- mixing soft and hardfloat code is possible
- structure packing is not as painful as it used to be
- a more efficient syscall convention
- more compatibility with various tools
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
[Thomas: keep the ABI choice, as we are going to introduce EABIhf later].
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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Just introduce the symbol and options in arch generic Config.in.
Add FLAT types specific compiling flags into package makefile.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Adds the possibility to have a free-form CPU revision string and append it
to the target CPU. Only Blackfin actually uses this option.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This patch adds a Target CPU configuration option and uses it to select
a -m option for gcc.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Just introduce the symbol and options in arch generic Config.in.
Append FLAT format link flags to external toolchain wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As ARC support is not yet in all upstream packages, a different location is
required to download the packages from. This adds an option to specify a
site for ARC-specific versions of packages such as binutils, gcc.
When ARC support has been upstreamed for all packages, this option can be
removed again.
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Synopsys' DesignWare ARC Processor Cores are a family of 32-bit CPUs that
can be used from deeply embedded to high performance host applications.
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* Add Faraday FA526/626 as suggested on bug #1291
Note however that these cores are v4 and NOT v4t.
* Make the sa110 & sa1110 cores -> strongarm since they're the same.
* Drop all of the ARM variants lower than v4 including generic, there's
no point in supporting obsolete targets.
* Fix uClibc USE_BX logic, it was always on, this would break the new
FA526/626 support and broke StrongARM since it's a v4 core.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
