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commit 418ace9992a7647c446ed3186df40cf165b67298 upstream. Naresh and Antonio ran into a build failure with latest Debian armhf compilers, with lots of output like tmp/ccY3nOAs.s:2215: Error: selected processor does not support `cpsid i' in ARM mode As it turns out, $(cc-option) fails early here when the FPU is not selected before CPU architecture is selected, as the compiler option check runs before enabling -msoft-float, which causes a problem when testing a target architecture level without an FPU: cc1: error: '-mfloat-abi=hard': selected architecture lacks an FPU Passing e.g. -march=armv6k+fp in place of -march=armv6k would avoid this issue, but the fallback logic is already broken because all supported compilers (gcc-5 and higher) are much more recent than these options, and building with -march=armv5t as a fallback no longer works. The best way forward that I see is to just remove all the checks, which also has the nice side-effect of slightly improving the startup time for 'make'. The -mtune=marvell-f option was apparently never supported by any mainline compiler, and the custom Codesourcery gcc build that did support is now too old to build kernels, so just use -mtune=xscale unconditionally for those. This should be safe to apply on all stable kernels, and will be required in order to keep building them with gcc-11 and higher. Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996419 Reported-by: Antonio Terceiro <antonio.terceiro@linaro.org> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Tested-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com> Tested-by: Klaus Kudielka <klaus.kudielka@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.