Hi,

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 08:49:00PM +0800, lzSun wrote:
> Hello,Stefan
> >did you followed my advice to first enable the FPU in the kernel?
> >Otherwise it is totally clear to not work at all, because -O3 compiledcode 
> >make heavily use of the >FPU.
> 
> Thanks for your patient reply. I have tried to compile the hard-float genode 
> toolchain by modifying the repos/tool/tool_chain like this:
> -TARGET_NAME_arm        = arm-none-eabi
> +TARGET_NAME_arm        = arm-none-eabihf
> And I use tool_chain script to compile hard-float compiler by 
> "./tool/tool_chain arm" command. Then , I followed your advice to enable the 
> FPU in the kernel according to this patch[1]. But when I want to build the 
> project by "make run/tz_vmm", the compiling stage seems completed, but 
> there's error occurred in linking stage.The error message like this:
> 
> 
> genode build completed
> using 'hw_timer_drv' as 'timer'
> using 'ld-hw.lib.so' as 'ld.lib.so'
> core link address is 0x80000000
> /usr/local/genode-gcc2/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabihf/6.3.0/../../../../arm-none-eabihf/bin/ld:
>  error: var/run/tz_vmm.core uses VFP register arguments, 
> /usr/local/genode-gcc2/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabihf/6.3.0/libgcc.a(_fixsfdi.o)
>  does not
> 
> 
> 
> I am a little confused.  I think I have build the hard-float compiler and 
> enabled the FPU in the kernel. Did I missed something? 
> I also tried to change the flag "-mfloat-abi=hard" to "-mfloat-abi=softfp" in 
> repos/base/mk/global.mk and repos/base/mk/spec/arm_v7a.mk, then the project 
> can
> be  build successfully but still stuck at "Starting kernel ..." at booting 
> stage.
> 
> 
> >I've compiled a hard-float compiler like advised to you, took that topic 
> >branch, and recognized that for the i.MX53 one needs to set the
> >-mfpu flag to neon. Then I could measure the performance gain on the i.MX53 
> >Quickstart board. I've updated my topic branch to be
> >ready-to-merge, and prepared a topic branch that uses hard-float neon FPU at 
> >least on i.MX53 here:

I think you used the "old" topic branch that enabled the FPU, but in
my last e-mail I referred to a new branch that uses the "neon" FPU
compiler flags and the correct GCC support library that I've uploaded
for you. Here it is again:

  https://github.com/skalk/genode/tree/imx53-hf-neon

> 
> 
> 
> Thank you very much  for providing such a patch to me. But since the patch 
> you provided is based on  genode 18.08 and I am using 18.05 now, I can't use 
> "git diff" command to see which files are modified. Because there are too 
> many file changes. And it seems that the patch you provided can not be used 
> by me directly. So, as I said before, I refer to this patch[1] to enable FPU 
> in kernel.At beginning, I just modify the file that I think related to i.mx53 
> ,here's the list of  those file. Then, I also tried to modify all the file 
> related to the patch[1] but the result have not changed . I know my questions 
>  are quite more and odd, please do not mind and thanks for your patience.
> 

Sorry, but if you want to use "new" features you need to stay
up-to-date here, or port back relevant changes (see above branch). I
cannot help you here.

Regards
Stefan

> 
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/skalk/genode/commit/cf02346cef59a6752c9a07494d812c8ada701517
> [2] 
>  repos/base-hw/lib/mk/spec/armv7/core-hw.inc
>  repos/base-hw/src/bootstrap/spec/arm/crt0.s
>  repos/base-hw/src/core/spec/arm/cpu_support.h
>  repos/base-hw/src/core/spec/arm/exception_vector.s
>  repos/base-hw/src/core/spec/arm/kernel/thread.cc
>  repos/base-hw/src/core/spec/arm/vfpv3-d32.s
>  repos/base/mk/spec/arm_v7a.mk
> 
> 
> 
> 
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