[PATCH] Get rid of the ARM variant choice in the menuconfig, take 2

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 07:15:34 UTC 2009


On Thursday 09 April 2009 12:02:50 am Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 April 2009 18:03:55 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > As previously suggested, here is a patch that gets rid of the ARM variant
> > choice in the menuconfig.
> >
> > Unlike the previous submission, the endianness is still passed down to the
> > compiler and linker.
> >
> > This patch is just a proof of concept, to serve as a base of discussion.
> > Should this proove the correct aproach, then the other architectures could
> > then also see their variant choice removed.
> 
> thanks ... unless there's any other input/complaints/whatever, i'll merge this
> -mike
> 

Few concerns that I have

These options provided some uniqueness that was to a particular CPU. Like mmu or mmuless, thumb or not thumb
like cortex-m series does not support arm mode at all. bx instruction in not supported on all architectures. What abi to chose when building iwmmxt with old abi. I think leaving all these individually configurable could bring more trouble 
because people could get them wrong easily if there are more knobs.

I think we should leave in the unique ones in there as it makes the config easy to use for someone.

-- 
Khem Raj
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