Re: My progress on armhf: xf86-video-msm for armhf attempt. Please test.
On 31 August 2011 10:55, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:23:18AM +0100, Tixy wrote:
>>On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 23:34 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> My changes were to remove -mfpu=softfp and -mthumb-interworking, since
>>> as far as I can tell armhf uses -mfpu=hardfp and -mno-thumbinterworking
>>> by default.
>>
>>Is that true? For ARMv7, interworking is essentially free and Thumb code
>>would likely be faster due to its smaller memory footprint. So I would
>>have thought that not only should Thumb code be catered for, but
>>actively encouraged. Or am I missing something?
>
> You're correct - we should be using Thumb as much as we can!
(should have replied to all, sorry Steve :)
armhf is compiled with these flags by default:
-mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfpv3 -mthumb -march=armv7-a
Reg. the softfp/hardfp options, I'd suggest removing them altogether
from makefiles, the compiler default should suffice all of the times.
Konstantinos
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