[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2] ARM: Avoid compiler optimization for usages of readb, writeb and friends.

Dirk Behme
2010-12-21T20:04:54Z

On 21.12.2010 20:52, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Albert& friends,
>
> what is your opinion? Should we include the memory barrier patch into
> the upcoming release (and eventually delay it for further testing), or
> release as is and solve this issue in the next release?
>
> I tend to leave it as is, as I expect that most people will disappear
> in the next few days for holidays, so no much testing will be done
> anyway, and we then can solve this with less pressure in the next
> release - but I'm not really sure if this is a good idea?

I somehow tend to leave it as is, too.

We have issues with some recent compilers. For these we found a fix
using the io.h somehow the same way the Linux kernel does. But this
introduces new issues for us, we haven't found a proper fix yet
(except changing the code to the 'old' io.h style). But we don't know
where we might have this issue additionally, yet.

I would like to talk with some tool chain guys about this, too.

Could we add a readme or a note somewhere about the issues with the
recent tool chains in this release?

Best regards

Dirk