[Buildroot] libgcc erroneously built as armv5 for arm920t(armv4t)

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Adam,

Did you had the opportunity to test the proposed patch?

On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:39:06 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear adam hussein\(!\),
> 
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:34:53 -0700 (PDT), adam hussein\(!\) wrote:
> 
> > I've been building the at91rm9200ek configuration of buildroot to get a toolchain I can use to build u-boot with some board specific configuration.
> > 
> > This is an ARM920T core chip with ARMv4T architecture??- later ARM9 series have ARMv5TE architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM9)
> > 
> > When gcc is built, or perhaps specifically libgcc only, it seems the selection of 920t/v4 architecture gets lost and v5 is used instead.
> > This means that when I use it to build u-boot, I find it has the __udivsi3 function using the illegal (to v4) instruction CLZ (count leading zeros).
> > 
> > The easiest workaround for me is to specify arm7tdmi and be done with it, but I'd like to try contributing a proper fix if possible.
> 
> Can you try the attached patch? Ideally, it would be nice if you could
> try it with two configurations:
> 
>  * With the internal toolchain backend
>  * With the Sourcery CodeBench 2013.05 external toolchain
> 
> and run it on real hardware.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your testing!
> 
> Thomas



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