On 5/30/19 11:14 AM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: > Hi Tom > > On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 10:12 -0400, Tom Rini wrote: >> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 02:53:55PM +0000, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: >>> Hi Tom >>> >>> On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 09:26 -0400, Tom Rini wrote: >>>> Hey folks, >>>> >>>> I'm attempting, again, to see what we need to do in order to use >>>> gcc- >>>> 8.x >>>> for U-Boot and ran into, again: >>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/920329/ which in short is that >>>> when >>>> using -mcpu=xscale gcc-8.x throws an odd error: >>>> cc1: error: switch -mcpu=xscale conflicts with -march=armv5te >>>> switch >>>> [-Werror] >>>> >>>> Now note, U-Boot isn't passing -march= at all, just -mcpu=xscale >>>> which >>>> suggests perhaps something broke in upstream gcc. Looking at the >>>> kernel, it's not used -mcpu=xscale ever, just -mtune=xscale but >>>> that >>>> leads to different failures (seen here with gcc-7.3): >>>> CC drivers/usb/gadget/pxa25x_udc.o >>>> {standard input}: Assembler messages: >>>> {standard input}:779: Error: selected processor does not support >>>> `pld >>>> [lr]' in ARM mode >>>> {standard input}:1201: Error: selected processor does not support >>>> `pld [r7]' in ARM mode >>>> {standard input}:2519: Error: selected processor does not support >>>> `pld [r3]' in ARM mode >>>> {standard input}:2796: Error: selected processor does not support >>>> `pld [r3]' in ARM mode >>>> >>>> So, what should we do about this? Is there still active interest >>>> in >>>> supporting the PXA platforms? Thanks folks! >>> >>> We are actually still shipping Colibri PXA270 modules for another >>> one >>> or two years I believe after which Marvell stops selling us chips. >>> >>> The strange thing is that I build U-Boot master more or less daily >>> without any known issues currently using the regular gcc 8.2 >>> 2019.01 >>> tool chain from ARM. >>> >>> The only issue is the missing DM_MMC and/or DM_USB conversion which >>> I >>> started working on a long time ago but never came around properly >>> debugging. I may pick that one up tomorrow again. >> >> I want to circle back to this. Thanks again for confirming that >> other >> toolchains are happy here (and figuring out a path forward for >> everyone >> is on my TODO list still). And I agree we need to figure out >> something >> about the size growth. But this still leaves one question >> open. There >> are, after dropping zipitz2, 2 PXA platforms. > > Let me name those two: > > - Colibri PXA270 > > Our customers already had to commit to a last-time-buy and we will > phasing out shipments next year. I don't think anybody is doing any new > designs with them since quite a while.
I still have one , I am really fond of the devkit design. > - HP iPAQ Pocket PC h2200 > > A consumer device with PXA255 from back in 2002. There has not been any > activity on h2200 from its maintainer Lukasz Dalek for almost 5 years > now. Without anybody actually owning such hardware stepping up it will > be quite impossible to maintain. Let's remove this one. >> Do you want to take over >> the MAINTAINER role from Marek for them? > > While I would love to do so I really don't think that makes too much > sense at all. We probably should just drop PXA support entirely, move > on and concentrate our resources on newer stuff like e.g. my patch sets > for Apalis iMX8 and Colibri iMX8X which did not get any more attention > since more resp. almost a month now. When did you say the Colibri PXA270 goes away ? -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
