kumquat-buildroot/package/uclibc/0001-arm-remove-use-of-USE_BX-option.patch
Thomas Petazzoni 15a2901d36 uclibc: add patches to simplify Thumb handling
This commit adds a number of patches to uClibc that radically
simplifies the Thumb handling. uClibc currently has three options that
you need to toggle on Thumb configurations depending on the specific
ARM CPU being targeted.

However, it turns out that none of those options are necessary:

 - USE_BX can simply be guessed by looking at the ARM core being
   used. The bx instruction is available for all ARM cores >=
   ARMv4T. This is exactly what glibc is doing.

 - USE_LDREXSTREX can also be guessed by looking at the ARM core being
   used: whenever you have Thumb2, ldrex/strex is available.

 - COMPILE_IN_THUMB becomes useless, since all it does is passing
   -mthumb. But just like the uClibc config options to set
   --march=<foo> have been removed a long time ago, there's no need to
   -have an option to pass -mthumb.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-03-30 00:14:48 +02:00

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From 5ae09aacbe8b959a36cde130c36547456b7ec8d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:40:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] arm: remove use of USE_BX option
There is no need to have an option for this: knowing whether BX is
available or not is easy. If you have an ARM > v4 or ARMv4T, then BX
is available, otherwise it's not. This logic is the one used in glibc:
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
---
libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/bits/arm_bx.h | 10 ++++------
libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/clone.S | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/bits/arm_bx.h b/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/bits/arm_bx.h
index 2c29089..1c775b6 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/bits/arm_bx.h
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/bits/arm_bx.h
@@ -23,13 +23,11 @@
#error Please include features.h first
#endif /* features.h not yet included */
-#if defined(__USE_BX__)
-# if (__ARM_ARCH <= 4 && !defined __ARM_ARCH_4T__)
-# error Use of BX was requested, but is not available on the target processor.
-# endif /* ARCH level */
-#endif /* __USE_BX__ */
+#if __ARM_ARCH > 4 || defined (__ARM_ARCH_4T__)
+# define ARCH_HAS_BX
+#endif
-#if defined(__USE_BX__) && (__ARM_ARCH > 4 || (__ARM_ARCH == 4 && defined __ARM_ARCH_4T__))
+#if defined(ARCH_HAS_BX)
# define BX(reg) bx reg
# define BXC(cond, reg) bx##cond reg
#else
diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/clone.S b/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/clone.S
index b4c7d8a..fd7590d 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/clone.S
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/clone.S
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ __clone:
@ pick the function arg and call address off the stack and execute
ldr r0, [sp, #4]
-#if defined(__USE_BX__)
+#if defined(ARCH_HAS_BX)
ldr r1, [sp]
bl 2f @ blx r1
#else
--
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