From f52692ed64c64d24771e89f12b3db439247e28fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Yann E. MORIN" Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:05:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] arch/arm: add option to enable an optional VFP unit Currently, the VFP selection for ARM is a little bit muddy: - some CPUs definitely do not have a VFP or NEON, - some CPUs definitely do have a VFP or NEON, - some CPUs may have a VFP or NEON. However, we currently conflate the availability of the VFP/NEON with the possibility to use them. Even is the user chooses a floating point strategy with a 'lower' solution (i.e. VFPv2 when a VFPv3 exists, or not using NEON when the CPU has it), some packages are still using the CPU-defined HW availaibility rather thean the usr's selection. Furthermore, for CPU that may have a VFP/NEON, there is no way for the user to actually specify that the HW is indeed available; the user can only specify the floating point strategy. This means that some packages or some package versions, like nodejs for example, can not be properly selected on some CPU cores, like Cortex-A9 which only may have a VFP. Like we have an option to enable an optional NEON unit, add a similar option to enable an optional VFP unit. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- arch/Config.in.arm | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/Config.in.arm b/arch/Config.in.arm index feac16dd57..f2c5a5809b 100644 --- a/arch/Config.in.arm +++ b/arch/Config.in.arm @@ -194,6 +194,13 @@ config BR2_ARM_ENABLE_NEON Select this option if you are certain your particular implementation has NEON support and you want to use it. +config BR2_ARM_ENABLE_VFP + bool "Enable VFP extension support" + depends on BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV2 + select BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV4 if BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV4 + select BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV3 if BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV3 + select BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV2 if BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV2 + choice prompt "Target ABI" depends on BR2_arm || BR2_armeb -- 2.30.2