Hello, 2013/10/13 Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 02:23 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: >> Hello, >> >> 2013/10/6 Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > 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. >> >> Debian armel userland can be run on any device, so it is suggested to >> better rely on toolchain configuration rather than kernel config >> symbols. >> >> For arm-gnueabi(hf) toolchain something like: >> $ gcc -dumpspecs | grep multilib_defaults -A2 | grep -q soft && echo >> "This is armel" >> $ gcc -dumpspecs | grep multilib_defaults -A2 | grep -q hard && echo >> "This is armhf" >> could be checked instead. > [...] > > Is the output of -dumpspecs really so stable that this is going to be > reliable? I am not sure about it... but up to date, I have never found a system that makes it faulty. I would be interesting to check on other distributions besides Debian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
