Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] deb-pkg: Add automatic support for armhf architecture

[Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra@linaro.org>]

On 9 June 2014 03:21, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> The Debian armhf architecture uses the ARM EABI hard-float variant,
> whereas armel uses the soft-float variant.  Although the kernel
> doesn't use FP itself, CONFIG_VFP must be enabled to support
> hard-float userland and will probably be disabled when supporting a
> soft-float userland.  So set the architecture to armhf by default when
> CONFIG_AEABI and CONFIG_VFP are both enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

Acked-by: Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra@linaro.org>

> ---
> v2: rebased
>
> After discussion with Hector, we agreed this would be a worthwhile
> change.  Hector may later improve this by using gcc specs.
>
> Ben.
>
>  scripts/package/builddeb | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> index f46e4dd..6756ed6 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> @@ -43,7 +43,16 @@ create_package() {
>         mips*)
>                 debarch=mips$(grep -q CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG && echo el || true) ;;
>         arm*)
> -               debarch=arm$(grep -q CONFIG_AEABI=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG && echo el || true) ;;
> +               if grep -q CONFIG_AEABI=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG; then
> +                   if grep -q CONFIG_VFP=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG; then
> +                       debarch=armhf
> +                   else
> +                       debarch=armel
> +                   fi
> +               else
> +                   debarch=arm
> +               fi
> +               ;;
>         *)
>                 echo "" >&2
>                 echo "** ** **  WARNING  ** ** **" >&2
>
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.