From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:19:28 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2] linux: may fail to boot for binutils 2.29+ even without armv7m In-Reply-To: (Arnout Vandecappelle's message of "Tue, 5 Jun 2018 00:10:30 +0200") References: <20180601180157.759-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <878t7pcqdr.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle 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