HEADS UP: The default ABI has changed
Alie Tan
alie at afflemedialab.com
Wed Jul 17 07:15:28 UTC 2013
Hi,
Somehow i am getting error while compiling the latest code:
"Makefile", line 233: check your date/time: Wed Jul 17 15:14:02 SGT 2013
Any idea? is this related with the switch?
Regards,
Alie T
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz> wrote:
> As of r253396 the default ABI on FreeBSD/ARM is the ARM EABI. If you
> run FreeBSD HEAD on an ARM CPU this will apply to you.
>
> If you are currently using the ARM EABI nothing should change for you
> other than you no longer need to set WITH_ARM_EABI as it is the default.
>
> If you are not sure what ABI you are running it is most likely the OABI.
>
> People currently running OABI have two options:
> 1. Stay on OABI by setting WITHOUT_ARM_EABI in make.conf, src.conf or
> on the command line. This option will be removed sometime in the
> future.
> 2. Move to ARM EABI by following the instructions below.
>
> By changing to EABI you will need to reinstall everything. This
> includes your kernel, world and ports/packages (i.e. everything). This
> is because the ABIs are incompatible with each other. Also not that an
> EABI kernel is unable to run OABI binaries and vice versa.
>
> The suggested way to upgrade to the ARM EABI is to rebuild your kernel
> and world with a second build machine then upgrade all ports and
> packages. Building and installing an ARM EABI kernel and world on an
> OABI system is not guaranteed to work, and it is almost certain to fail.
>
> Advantages of ARM EABI:
> - The main advantage is we are now more compatible with third party
> software that relies on the ABI.
> - Compatible with future toolchains. The OABI will likely get less
> testing as less people use it outside of FreeBSD.
> - Improved structure alignment rules.
> - Allow future work to enable Thumb-2 by updating the syscall
> interface.
> - Allow future work to enable the hard float variant of the ARM EABI.
> This will provide a performance improvement for code using floating
> point operations.
>
> There is a known issue with pkg where it will detect the wrong ABI.
> This is fixed upstream and will be available soon.
>
> Andrew
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