[oe] Making thumb builds easier in OE
Koen Kooi
k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Sat Oct 25 11:35:30 UTC 2008
Hi,
I noticed that Phil fixed thumb interworking in glibc for armv4t which
spurred me to do this:
arm tune files: include tune-thumb by default
* it defaults to non-thumb, so no functional change
So people can now set ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "thumb" and resulting ARM
builds will be in thumb mode.
This does raise a few issues:
1) How can we handle thumb2? I only changed the arm9 and arm11 tune
files, how should we do the arm1176 and cortex ones?
2) Since thumb packages are compatible with non-thumb ones we don't
really need a seperate arch, but keeping them same feels wrong and is a
QA nightmare.
for 2) my first thought was to add '-thumb' to the archs, like angstrom
adds '-oabi' for strongarm packages.
I'm not really interested in a discussion whether thumb(2) is worth it,
I just want to solve the build- and distro side of it.
Thought suggestions?
regards,
Koen
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