[Buildroot] [V4 1/2] A20-OLinuXino-Lime: new board (mainline)

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

Dear Luca Ceresoli,

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:54:25 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:


> In fact, we have several Cortex-A defconfigs that enable NEON (5 out of
> 26) and EABIHF (9 out of 26):
> 
> $ git grep -l  cortex_a -- configs/ |wc
>       26      26     878
> $ git grep -l  cortex_a -- configs/ | xargs grep -l EABIHF|wc
>        9       9     308
> $ git grep -l  cortex_a -- configs/ | xargs grep -l NEON|wc
>        5       5     158
> $
> 
> But as I said, my understanding might be wrong.
> 
> Any authoritative opinions on this?

We don't have any strong position on this I believe. From my point of
view, enabling EABIhf definitely makes sense when it is possible. And
enabling NEON support also makes sense. However, using NEON as the FPU
is a bad idea (i.e BR2_ARM_FPU_NEON=y is a bad idea).

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com