On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 06:01:47PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > This patch decouples U-Boot binary from the toolchain on systems where > private libgcc is available. Instead of pulling in functions provided > by the libgcc from the toolchain, U-Boot will use it's own set of libgcc > functions. These functions are usually imported from Linux kernel, which > also uses it's own libgcc functions instead of the ones provided by the > toolchain. > > This patch solves a rather common problem. The toolchain can usually > generate code for many variants of target architecture and often even > different endianness. The libgcc on the other hand is usually compiled > for one particular configuration and the functions provided by it may > or may not be suited for use in U-Boot. This can manifest in two ways, > either the U-Boot fails to compile altogether and linker will complain > or, in the much worse case, the resulting U-Boot will build, but will > misbehave in very subtle and hard to debug ways. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> > Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.b...@aribaud.net> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> > Cc: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> > Cc: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> -- Tom
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