[PATCH] ARM: h3600: update defconfig

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Oct 2 16:56:04 EDT 2013


On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:47:41PM +0200, Andrea Adami wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:19:54AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> This updates the h3600 defconfig against the latest kernel with
> >> some small options coming and going due to Kconfig structure,
> >> then modernize it to:
> >>
> >> - Use EABI to compile the kernel
> >
> > EABI on ARMv4 *non-T* and without --fix-v4bx (a) added to the linker
> > arguments, and (b) V4BX relocations added to the kernel module loader?
> > Are you sure this is all that's required?
> >
> 
> Yes, the toolchain built with OpenEmbedded / Yocto Project contains
> the necessary fixes [1] since end 2012.
> Runtime tested eglibc and klibc on Zaurus collie.
> Same binaries even tested on armv5te.
> 
> [1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/log/?qt=grep&q=armv4

Sorry, I don't accept this as an adequate "fix" for the kernel.  It's not
up to the build environment to provide --fix-v4bx to the kernel makefiles
to work around this problem.  That's just the sticky plaster fix and not
proper engineering.



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