The armv8.3a generation is a cumulative extension to armv8.2a.
Since gcc correctly enables the appropriate extensions based on the core
name, we don't really need to introduce a separate config for armv8.3a,
and we can piggyback on armv8a.
This new core is AArch64 only.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The armv8.2a generation is a cumulative extension to armv8.1a.
Since gcc correctly enables the appropriate extensions based on the core
name, we don't really need to introduce a separate config for armv8.2a,
and we can piggyback on armv8a.
In theory, gcc supports those cores in arm mode. However, configuring
gcc thusly generates a non-working gcc that constantly whines:
cc1: warning: switch -mcpu=cortex-a55 conflicts with -march=armv8.2-a switch
It is to be noted that the -march flag is internal to gcc. It is not
something that Buildroot did set when configuring gcc; Buildroot only
ever sets --with-cpu (not --with-arch).
Additionally, uClibc fails to build entirely (unsure if this is caused
by the above, or if it is a separate issue, though), with:
#### Your compiler does not support TLS and you are trying to build uClibc-ng
#### with NPTL support. Upgrade your binutils and gcc to versions which
#### support TLS for your architecture. Do not contact uClibc-ng maintainers
#### about this problem.
Glibc and musl have not been tested in arm mode, so maybe we could have
a toolchain that eventually works (or at least, pretends to be working),
but we decided it was not worth the effort.
Thus, we restrict those cores to AArch64 mode only.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Since gcc-8, falkor and qdf24xx have been available only as
AArch64. Indeed, according to upstream commit [1], the released HW has
never supported AArch32.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=96a411453d39e6583fa4d7008761a1977cdbe7fa
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
[Thomas: improve commit log]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Those cores are already guarded by a 64-bit-only condition, so they
can't even select additional options in non-64-bit mode anyway...
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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>
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>
... 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
