Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
In message 4E54B862.2070000@aribaud.net you wrote:
Well, it is more a question of which toolchain(s) we want supported in U-Boot. Denx ELDK is one of them I guess :) but now that ELDK 5.0 is out, I don't know if ELDK 4.2 support is still required.
It seems reasonable to support any gcc 4.x configuration.
If ELDK4.2 must be supported, then I would suggest creating a configuration option to allow the use of armv7-a ISA, then the arch/arm/cpu/armv7/highbank/config.mk file would select armv7-a ISA
I don't tink I want to accept a board specific config.mk for such apurpose. We want to get rid of thse config.mk files. Either ARMv7 based boards all need this option, or they all don;t need it. Thisis NOT a board specific feature.
If ELDK4.2 support is dropped (at least partially) then no change would be needed.
Wolfgang:, I think that toolchain support for ARM is more your choice than mine.
See above - I see no reason why we should abandon ELDK 4.2 when adding a new board - when all other boards with similar CPUs work just fine.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk