[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add ARM11 MPCore CPU target support

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2015-12-23 23:10 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Sergi sent a v2 of his patch... but your suggestion doesn't work. See
> below.
> 
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:30:30 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if we should not make VFP optional, and change the CPU nme on
> > whether the user has enabled VFP, like:
> > 
> >     config BR2_arm11mpcore
> >         bool "mpcore"
> >         [...]
> >         select BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV2
> >         [...]
> > 
> >     config BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU
> >         [...]
> >         default "mpcore"        if BR2_arm11mpcore && BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV2
> >         default "mpcorenovfp"   if BR2_arm11mpcore
> >         [...]
> 
> This doesn't work, because BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV2 is not a user visible
> option, and there is nothing that selects it in the current Buildroot.
> Therefore the "mpcore" case can never be reached.
> 
> Consequently, I am tempted to take v1 of Sergi's patch. Yes, it means
> we don't support the no-VFP variant of ARM11 MPCore, but I'm not sure
> there are lots of ARM11 MPCore without a VFP, so maybe supporting
> mpcorenovfp is not worth the effort for the moment.
> 
> Thoughts?

I think that with the newly VFP stuff we committed today, we could
slightly rework that patch and make it work, no? ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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