[PATCH 2/2] ARM: Make CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE depend on !CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Feb 4 06:03:42 EST 2011


On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:59:42AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> Because the nwfpe support is unlikely to be used on new platforms
> and requires CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT, which is not generally used with
> ARMv7+, we shouldn't expect to build nwfpe support into a Thumb-2
> kernel.
> 
> At present, nwfpe contains assembly code which isn't Thumb-2
> compatible, and for now it doesn't appear useful to port this
> code.

You might as well make OABI_COMPAT depend on !THUMB2_KERNEL.  OABI
userland is useless without FPA support.



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