From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 04:05:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F71274A for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from h2.funkthat.com (gate2.funkthat.com [208.87.223.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "funkthat.com", Issuer "funkthat.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B1932F8 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from h2.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h2.funkthat.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s8T45VLx016285 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:05:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@h2.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by h2.funkthat.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id s8T45U6U016284; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:05:30 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Andrew Turner Subject: Re: MK_ARM_EABI to retire in current Message-ID: <20140929040530.GH43300@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Turner , Warner Losh , freebsd-arm References: <20140928121818.741e7e7e@bender.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140928121818.741e7e7e@bender.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 54BA 873B 6515 3F10 9E88 9322 9CB1 8F74 6D3F A396 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (h2.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-arm X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:05:34 -0000 Andrew Turner wrote this message on Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:18 +0100: > On Mon, 19 May 2014 09:40:33 -0600 > Warner Losh wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > MK_ARM_EABI is going to die in current. It is the default for all > > platforms currently. I?m eliminating it as a build option. It must > > die because it invisibly (to uname) effects the ABI. > > > > So, to that end, I see two options: > > > > (1) Retire and remove oabi support. > > (2) Retain oabi support, but change its name to armo and armoeb. > > > > The rough consensus of arm developers I?ve polled now, and in the > > past, is that we just let oabi support die now that EABI support is > > working for everybody. > > > > Before I pull the trigger on this, however, I must ask if anybody has > > a problem with my doing option (1), and if so, what keeps you using > > oabi. > > > > Comments? > > As far as I know all the problems with ARM EABI on armeb mentioned > in this thread have been fixed. I think we should now retire the oabi > support and remove MK_ARM_EABI. Yeh, I don't know of any issues, though my AVILA board isn't 100% stable as I did get this recently: panic: Fatal abort panic: mtx_lock() by idle thread 0xc0e66320 on sleep mutex eventhandler @ /usr/src.avila/sys/kern/subr_eventhandler.c:251 But, I don't think this is related to EABI... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."