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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/10] ARM: pass -marm to gcc by default
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> The Linaro cross toolchain and probably others nowadays default to
> building in THUMB2 mode. When building a kernel for a CPU that does
> not support THUMB2, the compiler complains about incorrect flags.
> We can work around this by setting -marm for all non-T2 builds.
>
> Without this patch, building assabet_defconfig results in:
>
> usr/initramfs_data.S:1:0: warning: target CPU does not support THUMB instructions [enabled by default]
> arch/arm/nwfpe/entry.S:1:0: warning: target CPU does not support THUMB instructions [enabled by default]
> firmware/cis/PCMLM28.cis.gen.S:1:0: warning: target CPU does not support THUMB instructions [enabled by default]
> (and many more)
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/Makefile | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> index 30eae87..b4c2296 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> @@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ AFLAGS_THUMB2 :=$(CFLAGS_THUMB2) -Wa$(comma)-mthumb
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_THUMB2_AVOID_R_ARM_THM_JUMP11),y)
> CFLAGS_MODULE +=-fno-optimize-sibling-calls
> endif
> +else
> +CFLAGS_THUMB2 :=-marm
> +AFLAGS_THUMB2 :=-marm

CFLAGS_THUMB2 should probably be renamed to something more appropriate
in this case, e.g. CFLAGS_MODE.


Nicolas


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