Add ARM Cortex-A9 to the list of support processors

[Nitin Garg]

sure, I agree but shall we put this change for 3.2? For 3.2, the
tuning options will still be in uClibc buildsys, right?

Regards,
Nitin

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
<rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Carmelo AMOROSO" <carmelo.amoroso at st.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2/2/2011 2:49 AM, Nitin Garg wrote:
>>> Here is a patch to add Cortex-A9 to the list of supported processors
>>> by uClibc. Pls add it to the repository (signed-off patch is
>>> attached).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nitin Garg
>>>
>>> uClibc/Rules.mak | 1 +
>>> uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.arm | 4 ++++
>>> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/uClibc/Rules.mak b/uClibc/Rules.mak
>>> index 8165cca..8bec730 100644
>>> --- a/uClibc/Rules.mak
>>> +++ b/uClibc/Rules.mak
>>> @@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),arm)
>>> CPU_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM_IWMMXT)+=-march=iwmmxt
>>> -Wa,-mcpu=iwmmxt -mabi=iwmmxt
>>> CPU_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_M3)+=-mcpu=cortex-m3 -mthumb
>>> CPU_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_M1)+=-mcpu=cortex-m1 -mthumb
>>> + CPU_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_A9)+=-mtune=cortex-a9 -march=armv7-a
>>> endif
>>>
>>> ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),mips)
>>> diff --git a/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.arm
>>b/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.arm
>>> index b060ace..c0b79c1 100644
>>> --- a/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.arm
>>> +++ b/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.arm
>>> @@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ config CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_M1
>>> select ARCH_HAS_NO_MMU
>>> select USE_BX
>>>
>>> +config CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_A9
>>> + bool "Arm Cortex-A9"
>>> + select ARCH_HAS_MMU
>>> +
>>> config CONFIG_ARM_SA110
>>> bool "Intel StrongArm SA-110"
>>> select ARCH_HAS_MMU
>>>
>>
>>Nitin,
>>we agreed to remove all the tuning option from uClibc buildsys relying
>>upon a properly configured toolchain. There is a patchset from Yann
>>already reviewed and approved (to be included after .32 release).
>>Please check the list for details.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Carmelo
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>
> Hi,
>
> Configure your toolchain --with-tune or use UCLIBC_EXTRA_CFLAGS if your toolchain was built for a different default tune (or just edit the spec to tune for your cpu per default).
> HTH,
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