This commit renames the Kconfig `FLOAT` symbol to `FPU`, since this
symbol only indicates that the hardware Floating Point Unit (FPU) is
used and does not imply and/or indicate the general availability of
toolchain-level floating point support (i.e. this symbol is not
selected when building for an FPU-less platform that supports floating
point operations through the toolchain-provided software floating point
library).
Moreover, given that the symbol that indicates the availability of FPU
is named `CPU_HAS_FPU`, it only makes sense to use "FPU" in the name of
the symbol that enables the FPU.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
The ARM GCC `-march` compiler flag is completely redundant when the
`-mcpu` flag is specified, since the `-mcpu` selects the target ARM
architecture as well as CPU-specific optimisations.
In fact, it is disadvantageous to specify both `-march` and `-mcpu`
flags because the `-march` flag overrides and disables any CPU-specific
optimisations enabled by the `-mcpu` flag.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
This commit adds the GCC `-mabi=lp64` flag to force the LP64 (64-bit
long and pointer) ABI, which is mandatory for running the Zephyr
AArch64 architecture port.
Note that this flag is, strictly speaking, not necessary in most cases
because the AArch64 GCC defaults to using the LP64 ABI. This flag is
required, however, if compiling Zephyr with a GCC that is configured
with `--with-abi=ilp32`, which makes ILP32 the default ABI.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
The ARM architecture root directory contains `aarch32.cmake` and
`aarch64.cmake` files whose contents are better suited to go into other
more purpose-specific files.
This commit removes the aforementioned files and moves their contents
to other files following the convention used by other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
This commit introduces the `COMPILER_ISA_THUMB2` symbol to allow
choosing either the ARM or Thumb instruction set for C code
compilation.
In addition, this commit introduces the `ASSEMBLER_ISA_THUMB2` helper
symbol to specify the default target instruction set for the assembler.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
To be able to successfully compile the kernel for the ARM64 architecture
we have to tweak the compiler-related files to be able to use the
AArch64 GCC compiler.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
