From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@barebox.org>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@barebox.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: deprecate use of ARCH=arm for arm64 builds
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:37:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260610153904.2862220-1-a.fatoum@barebox.org> (raw)
Linux has separate arch/arm and arch/arm64, where each is built by
ARCH=arm and ARCH=arm64, respectively.
barebox has arch/arm for both, which leads to issues from time to time:
- Ported kernel code may assume SRCARCH to differ between arm32
and arm64[1].
- It's not possible to determine if we are going to build for 32-bit
ARM or 64-bit ARM before reading and normalizing the config[2].
To be able to, someday, resolve these issues, let's throw a warning
when ARCH=arm is used when it later turns out that ARCH=arm64 would
have been more correct and vice versa.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/barebox/20260610135904.2717667-1-a.fatoum@barebox.org/T/#u
[2]: 92d503132efc ("Revert "MAKEALL: query CONFIG_64BIT before make instead of CONFIG_ARM64 after"")
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@barebox.org>
---
Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master.rst | 8 ++++++++
arch/arm/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
arch/arm/Makefile | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master.rst b/Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..455863357d1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/migration-guides/migration-master.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+:orphan:
+
+ARCH=arm64
+----------
+
+Use of ``ARCH=arm`` for 64-bit ARM builds is deprecated and now emits
+a warning. Users should change build scripts to use ``ARCH=arm64``
+instead when targetting ARMv8.
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index cb6652001546..63877c965fad 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ config ARM64
select ARCH_HAS_RELR
select ARCH_HAS_BAREBOX_MEMORY_OFFSET
+config ARM64_STRICT_BUILD_ARCH
+ bool
+ depends on ARM64
+ help
+ When selected, ARCH=arm64 is required for 64-bit builds and ARCH=arm
+ will fail. When not selected, a deprecation warning is printed.
+
config ARCH_TEXT_BASE
hex
default 0x00000000
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index eb4c634c42ec..edf6f7d74eb5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -18,10 +18,20 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -D__ARM__ -fno-strict-aliasing
# Explicitly specifiy 32-bit ARM ISA since toolchain default can be -mthumb:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_64),y)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-maarch64,)
+ifneq ($(UTS_MACHINE),arm64)
+ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_STRICT_BUILD_ARCH
+$(error Deprecated use of ARCH=arm in 64-bit ARM build! Set ARCH=arm64 instead.)
+else
+$(warning Deprecated use of ARCH=arm in 64-bit ARM build! Set ARCH=arm64 instead.)
+endif
+endif
endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_32),y)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-marm,)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -msoft-float
+ifeq ($(UTS_MACHINE),arm64)
+$(error Erroneous use of ARCH=arm64 in 32-bit ARM build! Set ARCH=arm instead.)
+endif
endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),y)
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-10 15:37 Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2026-06-10 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] Makefile: clang: fix triplet computation for ARM Ahmad Fatoum
2026-06-10 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM64: suppress -mabi=lp64 when built with clang Ahmad Fatoum
2026-06-15 8:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: deprecate use of ARCH=arm for arm64 builds Sascha Hauer
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