On 5/21/19 12:33 PM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: > On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 12:50 +0300, Alex Sadovsky wrote: >> It's slightly off-topic but I wonder whether this ongoing deprecation >> of ARMv4 and ARMv5 (first in GCC, then in U-Boot) really simplifies >> anything at all. >> There are tons of devices that are still working good and there are >> even ARMv5-based MCUs that are still produced (such as CH561 >> manufactured by WCH). > > Please note that as of today Marvell is also still producing them PXAs > which are not to go end-of-life before later next year I believe. > >> IMHO it makes sense to drop only the XScale-specific tuning first and >> to treat PXA (and similar CPUs) as a more generic armv5te. I wonder >> what to do when GCC drops ARMv5 completely... > > I believe it was only an issue with early gcc 8 but does work just fine > again with later 8.2 or 8.3 versions. > > However, what is more concerning to me is that in today's convoluted > moloch known as U-Boot there may simply not be any space any more for > something truly embedded but somewhat limited like PXA based hardware.
If we ignore the PXA25x/26x, the PXA27x has loads of SRAM for U-Boot SPL and then can load U-Boot proper into DRAM. What's the problem ? -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
