From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Ziswiler Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 08:44:57 +0000 Subject: [U-Boot] U-Boot PXA support In-Reply-To: References: <20190506132604.GQ31207@bill-the-cat> <1d1f058fea839eb19f85d6e89c03e2515db74a83.camel@toradex.com> Message-ID: <6f0369b56bf7c431d14698798ce7b20950d77b07.camel@toradex.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thu, 2019-05-16 at 17:02 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > On 5/16/19 4:53 PM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: > > Hi Tom > > > > On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 09:26 -0400, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > > > > I'm attempting, again, to see what we need to do in order to use > > > gcc- > > > 8.x > > > for U-Boot and ran into, again: > > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/920329/ which in short is that > > > when > > > using -mcpu=xscale gcc-8.x throws an odd error: > > > cc1: error: switch -mcpu=xscale conflicts with -march=armv5te > > > switch > > > [-Werror] > > > > > > Now note, U-Boot isn't passing -march= at all, just -mcpu=xscale > > > which > > > suggests perhaps something broke in upstream gcc. Looking at the > > > kernel, it's not used -mcpu=xscale ever, just -mtune=xscale but > > > that > > > leads to different failures (seen here with gcc-7.3): > > > CC drivers/usb/gadget/pxa25x_udc.o > > > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > > > {standard input}:779: Error: selected processor does not support > > > `pld > > > [lr]' in ARM mode > > > {standard input}:1201: Error: selected processor does not support > > > `pld [r7]' in ARM mode > > > {standard input}:2519: Error: selected processor does not support > > > `pld [r3]' in ARM mode > > > {standard input}:2796: Error: selected processor does not support > > > `pld [r3]' in ARM mode > > > > > > So, what should we do about this? Is there still active interest > > > in > > > supporting the PXA platforms? Thanks folks! > > > > We are actually still shipping Colibri PXA270 modules for another > > one > > or two years I believe after which Marvell stops selling us chips. > > > > The strange thing is that I build U-Boot master more or less daily > > without any known issues currently using the regular gcc 8.2 > > 2019.01 > > tool chain from ARM. > > > > The only issue is the missing DM_MMC and/or DM_USB conversion which > > I > > started working on a long time ago but never came around properly > > debugging. I may pick that one up tomorrow again. > > Would you like to co-maintain the PXA ? :) Sure, but it may as well just be the PXA's very last steps before being laid to rest (;-p).