From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:02:58 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] U-Boot PXA support In-Reply-To: <1d1f058fea839eb19f85d6e89c03e2515db74a83.camel@toradex.com> References: <20190506132604.GQ31207@bill-the-cat> <1d1f058fea839eb19f85d6e89c03e2515db74a83.camel@toradex.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 5/16/19 4:53 PM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: > Hi Tom > > On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 09:26 -0400, Tom Rini wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> I'm attempting, again, to see what we need to do in order to use gcc- >> 8.x >> for U-Boot and ran into, again: >> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/920329/ which in short is that >> when >> using -mcpu=xscale gcc-8.x throws an odd error: >> cc1: error: switch -mcpu=xscale conflicts with -march=armv5te switch >> [-Werror] >> >> Now note, U-Boot isn't passing -march= at all, just -mcpu=xscale >> which >> suggests perhaps something broke in upstream gcc. Looking at the >> kernel, it's not used -mcpu=xscale ever, just -mtune=xscale but that >> leads to different failures (seen here with gcc-7.3): >> CC drivers/usb/gadget/pxa25x_udc.o >> {standard input}: Assembler messages: >> {standard input}:779: Error: selected processor does not support `pld >> [lr]' in ARM mode >> {standard input}:1201: Error: selected processor does not support >> `pld [r7]' in ARM mode >> {standard input}:2519: Error: selected processor does not support >> `pld [r3]' in ARM mode >> {standard input}:2796: Error: selected processor does not support >> `pld [r3]' in ARM mode >> >> So, what should we do about this? Is there still active interest in >> supporting the PXA platforms? Thanks folks! > > We are actually still shipping Colibri PXA270 modules for another one > or two years I believe after which Marvell stops selling us chips. > > The strange thing is that I build U-Boot master more or less daily > without any known issues currently using the regular gcc 8.2 2019.01 > tool chain from ARM. > > The only issue is the missing DM_MMC and/or DM_USB conversion which I > started working on a long time ago but never came around properly > debugging. I may pick that one up tomorrow again. Would you like to co-maintain the PXA ? :) -- Best regards, Marek Vasut