[Buildroot] status of odroidc2's support?

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, daggs, All,

On 2017-12-04 11:24 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:27:20 +0100, daggs wrote:
> > strange, when running menuconfig, I see only gcc 6 and gcc 7 in the version selection menu. what am I missing?
> > I think the branch already supports gcc5
> 
> Meh, it's the recent introduction of Cortex-A35 (commit
> e9960da6ec84d0fc4f3d7ef8d9db5b1e29d79358 from Yann, added in Cc) that
> broke this.
> 
> Due to this commit, Cortex-A35 is now the first AArch64 core, and
> therefore the one selected by default instead of Cortex-A53.
> 
> So, a defconfig that has just
> 
> BR2_aarch64=y
> 
> will now build for Cortex-A35 instead of Cortex-A53. However,
> Cortex-A35 support was only added in gcc 6.x, so only gcc 6.x/7.x are
> allowed.
> 
> Dagg, you can for now fix that by selecting Cortex-A53 explicitly in
> your defconfig:
> 
> BR2_aarch64=y
> BR2_cortex_a53=y
> 
> Yann, do you think we should add a "default BR2_cortex_a53 if
> BR2_aarch64 || BR2_aarch64eb" in the choice ?

Yes, adding a better default value makes sense.

The re-organisation was so that the list gets sorted. It is not an
endosement of a better default.

I'll send a patch.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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