From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2] linux: may fail to boot for binutils 2.29+ even without armv7m
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:19:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t7pcqdr.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3672758-0d2b-51cd-7eac-cc06158a995b@mind.be> (Arnout Vandecappelle's message of "Tue, 5 Jun 2018 00:10:30 +0200")
>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> writes:
Hi,
>> comment "Linux kernel may fail to boot with binutils >= 2.29"
>> - depends on BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV7M
>> + depends on BR2_arm || BR2_armeb
> I have a bit of a problem with this patch. IMO it's rather unlikely that people
> build the kernel in THUMB mode on non-M CPUs. But now we're always showing this
> warning. I think it will confuse a number of people, and I don't think it's very
> likely that it will actually help anyone.
Why is it unlikely? Thumb(2) generates smaller code, so I could
certainly think of use cases where it could be useful (and have used it
myself in the past).
But Ok, maybe the warning should have mentioned thumb.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-08 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-01 18:01 [Buildroot] [PATCHv2] linux: may fail to boot for binutils 2.29+ even without armv7m Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-01 19:42 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-06-04 22:10 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-06-05 5:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-06-05 7:23 ` Laurent GONZALEZ
2018-06-05 15:43 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-05 15:29 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-08 14:22 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-06-08 17:15 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-05 15:25 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-08 14:19 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2018-06-17 15:04 ` Peter Korsgaard
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