[PATCH v4 13/15] drm/amd/display: Use ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT
Samuel Holland
samuel.holland at sifive.com
Wed Apr 10 18:11:04 PDT 2024
Hi Thiago,
On 2024-04-10 8:02 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com> writes:
>> On 2024-04-10 5:21 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this patch causes build failures on arm with allyesconfig
>>> and allmodconfig. Tested with next-20240410.
>
> <snip>
>
>> In both cases, the issue is that the toolchain requires runtime support to
>> convert between `unsigned long long` and `double`, even when hardware FP is
>> enabled. There was some past discussion about GCC inlining some of these
>> conversions[1], but that did not get implemented.
>
> Thank you for the explanation and the bugzilla reference. I added a
> comment there mentioning that the problem came up again with this patch
> series.
>
>> The short-term fix would be to drop the `select ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT` for
>> 32-bit arm until we can provide these runtime library functions.
>
> Does this mean that patch 2 in this series:
>
> [PATCH v4 02/15] ARM: Implement ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT
>
> will be dropped?
No, because later patches in the series (3, 6) depend on the definition of
CC_FLAGS_FPU from that patch. I will need to send a fixup patch unless I can
find a GPL-2 compatible implementation of the runtime library functions.
Regards,
Samuel
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