Bug#915333: git-annex: Illegal Instruction on armel (Fujitsu Q700 like QNAP TS-21x/TS-22x)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 03:16:10PM +0300, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:05PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 08:12:17PM +0100, Bernhard Übelacker wrote:
> > > See attached file with several debugging attempts.
> > 
> > Looking at the code, the bug seems to be in
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/ghc/8.4.4+dfsg1-2/debian/patches/llvm-arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi.patch/
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> Thank you Bernhard and Adrian for debugging this. I have opened an unblock
> request for ghc to see if RT will allow us to fix this for buster.
> 
> [#928882] https://bugs.debian.org/928882

Thanks a lot for this.

> Running the `utils/llvm-targets/gen-data-layout.sh` script[1], outputs
> the following triplet for arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi:
> 
>   ("arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi", ("e-m:e-p:32:32-i64:64-v128:64:128-a:0:32-n32-S64", "arm7tdmi", "+soft-float -fp-only-sp -d16 -vfp2 -vfp3 -fp16 -vfp4 -fp-armv8 -neon -crypto +strict-align"))
> 
> The ARM7TDMI processor core implements the ARM architecture v4T, so it
> looks like the correct value for armel, but it would be great if someone
> from the debian-arm team could verify that the rest of the flags are OK.
>...

For buster the baseline of the Debian armel port was raised
from v4T to v5TE.

v4T is still fine on the armel port (only slightly slower).

For an upstreamable change arm7tdmi might be better since v4T
is the lowest with Thumb (and Thumb interworking) support.

cu
Adrian

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