On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 15:36 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>
> * we should also update Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15, to use
> -march=armv7ve,
> but the problem is that oe-core has gcc-4.[89] and gcc-5.2 and gcc
> -4.8
> doesn't support it yet,
Or you could make it use -mcpu=cortex-a15, which works for all gcc
versions within living memory. I've been using this change locally for
some months and it seems to work reasonably well:
diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-thumb.inc
b/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-thumb.inc
index a94386f..22291dc 100644
--- a/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-thumb.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/feature-arm-thumb.inc
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ARM_THUMB_SUFFIX .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES',
'armv6', 't', '', d
ARM_THUMB_SUFFIX .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'armv7a', 't2', '',
d)}"
ARM_THUMB_SUFFIX .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'armv7r', 't2', '',
d)}"
ARM_THUMB_SUFFIX .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'armv7m', 't2', '',
d)}"
+ARM_THUMB_SUFFIX .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'cortexa15', 't2',
'', d)}"
# If the device supports ARM, then respect ARM_THUMB_OPT (which can be "arm"
or "thumb")
# If the defice doesn't support ARM, then always set "thumb" even when
diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-cortexa15.inc
b/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-cortexa15.inc
index 5529777..f6c7d80 100644
--- a/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-cortexa15.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-cortexa15.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ DEFAULTTUNE ?= "armv7a-neon"
require conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv7a.inc
TUNEVALID[cortexa15] = "Enable Cortex-A15 specific processor optimizations"
-TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "cortexa15", "
-mtune=cortex-a15", "", d)}"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "cortexa15", "
-mcpu=cortex-a15", "", d)}"
+
+MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "cortexa15",
"cortexa15:armv7a:", "" ,d)}"
# Little Endian base configs
AVAILTUNES += "cortexa15 cortexa15t cortexa15-neon cortexa15t-neon"
@@ -11,10 +13,10 @@ ARMPKGARCH_tune-cortexa15 = "cortexa15"
ARMPKGARCH_tune-cortexa15t = "cortexa15"
ARMPKGARCH_tune-cortexa15-neon = "cortexa15"
ARMPKGARCH_tune-cortexa15t-neon = "cortexa15"
-TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7a} cortexa15"
-TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15t = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7at} cortexa15"
-TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15-neon = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7a-neon}
cortexa15"
-TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15t-neon = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv7at-neon}
cortexa15"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15 = "arm vfp cortexa15"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15t = "arm vftp thumb cortexa15"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15-neon = "arm vfp neon cortexa15"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa15t-neon = "arm vfp neon thumb cortexa15"
PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-cortexa15 = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7a}
cortexa15-vfp"
PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-cortexa15t = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7at}
cortexa15-vfp cortexa15t2-vfp"
PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-cortexa15-neon =
"${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv7a-neon} cortexa15-vfp cortexa15-vfp-neon"
p.
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