On 10/31/2014 04:03 PM, Manuel Lauss wrote: > Starting with version 2.24.51.20140728 MIPS binutils complain loudly > about mixing soft-float and hard-float object files, leading to this > build failure since GCC is invoked with "-msoft-float" on MIPS: > > {standard input}: Warning: .gnu_attribute 4,3 requires `softfloat' > LD arch/mips/alchemy/common/built-in.o > mipsel-softfloat-linux-gnu-ld: Warning: arch/mips/alchemy/common/built-in.o > uses -msoft-float (set by arch/mips/alchemy/common/prom.o), > arch/mips/alchemy/common/sleeper.o uses -mhard-float > > To fix this, we detect if GAS is new enough to support "-msoft-float" command > option, and if it does, we can let GCC pass it to GAS; but then we also need > to sprinkle the files which make use of floating point registers with the > necessary ".set hardfloat" directives. > > Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Compiles with binutils 2.23 and current git head, tested with alchemy (mips32r1) > and maltasmvp_defconfig (64bit) > > Tests with MSA and other extensions also appreciated! > > v6: #undef fp so that the preprocessor does not replace the fp in > .set fp=64 with $30... Fixes 64bit build. Technically speaking, a maltasmvp_defconfig selects CONFIG_32BIT=y so it's still a 32-bit build. > [...] Ok the fp problem went away but I still have the even/odd errors with my tools arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S: Assembler messages: arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 1 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 3 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 5 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 7 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 9 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 11 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 13 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 15 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 17 arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S:81: Error: float register should be even, was 19 The following patch did not help either: diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile index 58076472bdd8..b8bb7e170fee 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Makefile +++ b/arch/mips/Makefile @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER endif endif cflags-y += $(call cc-option, -mno-check-zero-division) - +cflags-y += -mno-odd-spreg This is with a regular maltasmvp_defconfig I guess my gcc version is newer than yours. Matthew? -- markos