> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rini [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 3:38 AM
> To: Dr. Philipp Tomsich <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peng Fan <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] armv8: apply -mgeneral-regs-only
> 
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 06:38:10PM +0200, Dr. Philipp Tomsich wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > Please note that some GCC versions had a code-generation bug when
> > -mgeneral-regs-only was used (we hit this for a customer in a vendor
> > GCC we maintain):
> >     https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64304
> >
> > Until everyone upgrades to a recently recent GCC (or until UBoot
> > enforces this next January), some people may hit hard-to-reproduce
> > issues.
> >
> > A better way to suppress SIMD generation would be to use:
> >     -march=armv8-a+nosimd
> 
> Ah, good to know.  Peng, please re-spin.

Actually I followed Linux to use "mgeneral-regs-only" here. Since
There is bug in some version gcc, I'll test and resend patch with using nosimd.

Thanks,
Peng.

> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Philipp.
> >
> > > On 04 Jul 2017, at 15:32, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:14:07PM +0800, Peng Fan wrote:
> > >
> > >> Pass -mgeneral-regs-only to GCC, if not compiler may generate
> > >> instructions that use SIMD registers.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <[email protected]>
> > >> Cc: Albert Aribaud <[email protected]>
> > >> Cc: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > --
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> Tom
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