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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/audit: force arm mode instead of Thumb mode
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:42:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230223224201.0e351b16@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230223062259.GJ2718518@scaer>

Hello Yann,

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 07:22:59 +0100
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:

> > +# src/libev has some assembly function that is not present in Thumb mode:
> > +# Error: selected processor does not support `mcr p15,0,r3,c7,c10,5' in Thumb mode
> > +# so, we desactivate Thumb mode
> > +ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_THUMB),y)
> > +AUDIT_CONF_ENV += CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS) -marm"
> > +endif  
> 
> But then it would not work on systems that have a armv7m: BR2_cortex_m3,
> BR2_cortex_m4, or BR2_cortex_m7.

BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_THUMB is for "classic" Thumb, not Thumb2.
BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_THUMB2 is used for Thumb2 platforms, such as
ARMv7-M.

So the above condition will only trigger for ARMv4/ARMv5/ARMv6 cores,
and they all support both classic Thumb and regular ARM instruction set.

So to me, the above proposal from Fabrice works fine.

> I looked at the code, and it's going to be very complex to patch it to
> support armv7m, i.e. thumb-only.

Thumb2-only, which is totally different.

Best regards,

Thomas
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-23 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-22 14:35 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/audit: force arm mode instead of Thumb mode Fabrice Fontaine
2023-02-23  6:22 ` Yann E. MORIN
2023-02-23  6:41   ` Yann E. MORIN
2023-02-23 21:42   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2023-03-09 21:43     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-16 21:35 ` Peter Korsgaard

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