Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Make CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE depend on !CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL

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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:59:42AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
>> Because the nwfpe support is unlikely to be used on new platforms
>> and requires CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT, which is not generally used with
>> ARMv7+, we shouldn't expect to build nwfpe support into a Thumb-2
>> kernel.
>>
>> At present, nwfpe contains assembly code which isn't Thumb-2
>> compatible, and for now it doesn't appear useful to port this
>> code.
>
> You might as well make OABI_COMPAT depend on !THUMB2_KERNEL.  OABI
> userland is useless without FPA support.
>

Sure.  The original patch is already upstream, but I can roll a
supplementary patch for this.

Cheers
---Dave
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