From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] arch/Config.in: Allow ARM to select BR2_BINFMT_FLAT
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 08:25:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130906082537.08818fba@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LVLhC7LiuXTcSY+Rmyy_jt6ec37cU4S_4a=j=CpUs1qbA@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 03:08:10 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> > or something like this. This way, users of MMU-capable ARM variants
> > wouldn't be confused by the availability of FLAT and ELF as binary
> > formats. Of course, BR2_BINFMT_ELF should gain some !BR2_arm7tmdi
> > && !BR2_arm_cortex_m3 && !BR2_arm_cortex_m4 dependencies, or maybe even
> > a !BR2_USE_MMU dependency. I think there's quite some room for
> > improvement around the definition of which CPU has an MMU or not, and
> > which architectures support which binary formats.
>
> Don't we/shouldn't we have something like ARCH_HAS_MMU and/or
> ARCH_SUPPORTS_FLAT_BINARY?
Yes, we should probably have something like this (and ditto for other
binary formats: ELF, FDPIC and so on).
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-04 2:43 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/Makefile.in: Fix dependency for selecting uclinux as TARGET_OS Axel Lin
2013-09-04 2:44 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] arch/Config.in: Allow ARM to select BR2_BINFMT_FLAT Axel Lin
2013-09-05 21:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-06 1:08 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-06 6:25 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-09-06 10:08 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-09-06 10:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-05 21:44 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/Makefile.in: Fix dependency for selecting uclinux as TARGET_OS Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-06 2:21 ` Axel Lin
2013-09-06 6:26 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-06 7:14 ` Axel Lin
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