[PATCH v2 02/19] ARM: limit OABI support to StrongARM CPUs
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-07-01 21:24:39
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> As discussed on the mailing lists, there is no way to build OABI userspace binaries any more since gcc-4.8, and now support is also getting dropped in binutils, which will make it impossible to build pure OABI kernels at some point in the future. I found no evidence of anyone still sing OABI userspace on embedded systems that keep getting kernel updates, but there are a few desktop-class machines that date back to the 1990s using Intel StrongARM processors that were supported by old versions of Debian, Red Hat or the official Corel Netwinder distribution. Add a much stricter Kconfig dependency for both native OABI and OABI_COMPAT enabled kernels, only allowing either of them to be selected when building a kernel that targets a StrongARM based machine. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2831c5a6-cfbf-4fe0-b51c-0396e5b0aeb7@app.fastmail.com/ (local) Acked-by: Linus Walleij <redacted> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 14 +++++++------- arch/arm/configs/am200epdkit_defconfig | 1 - arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig | 1 - arch/arm/configs/footbridge_defconfig | 2 +- arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig | 2 +- arch/arm/configs/versatile_defconfig | 1 - 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index ccc0114d30de..3b2316dc9d13 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig@@ -1151,8 +1151,7 @@ config ARM_PATCH_IDIV code to do integer division. config AEABI - bool "Use the ARM EABI to compile the kernel" if !CPU_V7 && \ - !CPU_V7M && !CPU_V6 && !CPU_V6K && !CC_IS_CLANG + bool "Use the ARM EABI to compile the kernel" if CPU_SA110 || CPU_SA1100 default y help The Arm EABI is the default ABI on all modern Linux
@@ -1162,9 +1161,13 @@ config AEABI Everyone should enable this, as support for OABI user space was dropped in gcc-4.8 and most distributions after ca. 2013. + Support for OABI mode will be removed from the kernel + once Intel StrongARM CPUs are phased out. + config OABI_COMPAT bool "Allow old ABI binaries to run with this kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on AEABI && !THUMB2_KERNEL + depends on CPU_SA110 || CPU_SA1100 help This option preserves the old syscall interface along with the new (ARM EABI) one. It also provides a compatibility layer to
@@ -1177,11 +1180,8 @@ config OABI_COMPAT selected, since there is no way yet to sensibly distinguish between calling conventions during filtering. - If you know you'll be using only pure EABI user space then you - can say N here. If this option is not selected and you attempt - to execute a legacy ABI binary then the result will be - UNPREDICTABLE (in fact it can be predicted that it won't work - at all). If in doubt say N. + Support for OABI_COMPAT will be removed from the kernel + once Intel StrongARM CPUs are phased out. config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL def_bool y
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/am200epdkit_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/am200epdkit_defconfig
index b3f81237c6e1..d4745b0f3dcb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/am200epdkit_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/am200epdkit_defconfig@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ CONFIG_EXPERT=y # CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V7 is not set CONFIG_ARCH_PXA=y CONFIG_ARCH_GUMSTIX=y -# CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is not set CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=1f01 rootfstype=jffs2" CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig
index 12c59a4ee504..541e38e2205b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ CONFIG_PCIE_AXXIA=y CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_NR_CPUS=16 CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y -CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB=y CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT=y
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/footbridge_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/footbridge_defconfig
index 589b7b1df8c6..e8bf9847d35d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/footbridge_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/footbridge_defconfig@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V4=y CONFIG_ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE=y CONFIG_ARCH_EBSA285_HOST=y CONFIG_ARCH_NETWINDER=y +# CONFIG_AEABI is not set CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE_XP=y -# CONFIG_AEABI is not set CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION=y
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
index c3010a4d93a8..16f0afd770c1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V4=y CONFIG_ARCH_SA1100=y CONFIG_SA1100_ASSABET=y CONFIG_ASSABET_NEPONSET=y +# CONFIG_AEABI is not set CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0x80000 CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0xc1000000 CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM=y CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttySA0,38400n8 cpufreq=221200 rw root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sa1100:512K(boot),1M(kernel),2560K(initrd),4M(root) mem=32M noinitrd initrd=0xc0800000,3M" CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y -# CONFIG_AEABI is not set CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/versatile_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/versatile_defconfig
index 8e89debb5a5b..bb9eb9ccbbde 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/versatile_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/versatile_defconfig@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y # CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V7 is not set CONFIG_ARCH_VERSATILE=y -CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT=y CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=1f03 mem=32M" CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y CONFIG_VFP=y
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