compiling 2.6.37 kernel in THUMB2 mode

[Dave Martin]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:02 AM,  <vb at vsbe.com> wrote:
> 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?

OMAP is one of TI's applications processor families.