Robert P. J. DAY says:
apparently, the patchset for gcc 4.2.1 applies properly to the
source for gcc 4.2.2 and gcc 4.2.3. so, if you want, you can simply
add support for those last two just by augmenting menuconfig and
adding a couple symlinks for those two directories. seems like a
cheap way to add a couple new versions.
1 http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm/msg08012.html
3 To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@xxxxxxxxxx>
4 Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Error: use of old and new-style options to set FPU type
5 From: Marc Britten <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
6 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:03:15 -0400
7 Cc: linux-arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
8 In-reply-to: <1525495613.20040615202902@andric.com>
13 >>Error: use of old and new-style options to set FPU type
14 > Try removing -Wa,-mno-fpu from CFLAGS (and possibly AFLAGS, but I'm
15 > not sure, depends on what your compiler generates by default) in
18 Just to let people know, this was successful.
29 make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/mod
30 /opt/crosstool/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.3/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/mod/.empty.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mapcs -mno-sched-prolog -mlittle-endian -mapcs-32 -malignment-traps -msoft-float -Wa,-mno-fpu -Uarm -Os -Wdeclaration-after-statement -DKBUILD_BASENAME=empty -DKBUILD_MODNAME=empty -c -o scripts/mod/empty.o scripts/mod/empty.c
32 Error: use of old and new-style options to set FPU type
33 make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 1
34 make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
35 make: *** [scripts] Error 2
38 --- linux-2.6.8/arch/arm/Makefile.old 2004-09-01 21:27:07.000000000 -0700
39 +++ linux-2.6.8/arch/arm/Makefile 2004-09-01 21:27:31.000000000 -0700
41 tune-$(CONFIG_CPU_V6) :=-mtune=strongarm
43 # Need -Uarm for gcc < 3.x
44 -CFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call check_gcc,-malignment-traps,-mshort-load-bytes) -msoft-float -Wa,-mno-fpu -Uarm
45 -AFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) -msoft-float -Wa,-mno-fpu
46 +CFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call check_gcc,-malignment-traps,-mshort-load-bytes) -msoft-float -Uarm
47 +AFLAGS +=-mapcs-32 $(arch-y) $(tune-y) -msoft-float
49 CHECK := $(CHECK) -D__arm__=1