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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:55:02 +0200
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To: Matt Sealey <matt@...esi-usa.com>
Cc: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Steev Klimaszewski <steev@...esi-usa.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
Dave Martin <dave.martin@...aro.org>,
Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>,
Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: build ssi-fiq.S in ARM mode to prevent
CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL build breakage
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:45:13PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> If i.MX SSI FIQ support is enabled then it is impossible to build a Thumb2
> kernel image due to the code not being written with Thumb2 in mind (over-use
> of registers). In order not to break Thumb2 kernels, compile this as ARM. All
> the processors which require this support will run ARM code so there is no
> problem at runtime in doing this, even if it does produce a strange mix of
> code that may not be desired.
>
> In theory this should only be needed on configs based on imx_v4_v5_defconfig
> where CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL cannot be selected anyway since these SoCs do not
> have ARM cores capable of running Thumb2 code. This also makes rewriting the
> code as Thumb-compatible kind of redundant. But since one Eukrea board audio
> driver needs it, and there is an i.MX51 CPU module for this board, it gets
> pulled in for imx_v6_v7_defconfig too, making this a necessity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <matt@...esi-usa.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
> index 8397a2d..ac09af8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> #define SSI_SIER_RFF0_EN (1 << 2)
>
> .text
> + .arm
> .global imx_ssi_fiq_start
> .global imx_ssi_fiq_end
> .global imx_ssi_fiq_base
I think it would be better to add a depends on !THUMB2_KERNEL to
SND_IMX_SOC_PCM_FIQ. The above may result in broken code in a thumb2
kernel, so I'd rather keep the compile error instead.
Sascha
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