compiling 2.6.37 kernel in THUMB2 mode

[vb at vsbe.com]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Note that while the bulk of the kernel is Thumb-2 safe, there are
>> occasional regressions, and individual platforms and drivers could
>> still have problems.  For now, I've been focusing on omap--- see
>>
>> git://git.linaro.org/people/dmart/linux-2.6-arm.git dirty/arm/omap-thumb2+merged
>>
>> ARM: Add local symbols in relocate_kernel.S to work around gas bugs
>
> ^ Oops, forgot to explain that line: this is the patch required to
> work around a specific bug in the assembler.  I'm not currently
> proposing to merge this upstream, since I prefer the assembler to get
> fixed...
> You can grab this patch from the branch.
>

Dave, thank you for this information. I checked out this branch and
would like to build a kernel. I don't know what omap is though, can
you please share a config file one could use to build the thumb
enabled kernel for it?

TIA,
cheers,
Vadim



>>
>> If you're trying to support a specific board I'm unlikely to be able
>> to debug it for you, but feel free to ping me with questions.
>>
>> Cheers
>> ---Dave
>>
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