From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: <binutils@sourceware.org>
Cc: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] NEWS: arm: note that FPA support has been removed
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:56:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240604115628.784729-12-rearnsha@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240604115628.784729-1-rearnsha@arm.com>
---
binutils/NEWS | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 756a29d1292..c4739386cb2 100644
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
removed. The CPU name ep9312 is still recognized, but treated as an alias
for arm920t.
+* Support for the FPA co-procossor on Arm has been removed. In cases where a
+ legacy CPU previously defaulted to using this instruction set extension, the
+ assembler now defaults to no-FPU to avoid quietly misassembling legacy code.
+
Changes in 2.42:
* The objdump program has a new command line option -Z/--decompress which
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-04 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-04 11:56 [PATCH 00/11] [2nd resend] arm: Remove FPA support from gas/binutils Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 01/11] arm: remove FPA related tests Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 02/11] arm: rename FPU_ARCH_VFP to FPU_ARCH_SOFTVFP Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 03/11] arm: default to softvfp on armv6 or later cores Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 04/11] arm: adjust FPU selection logic Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 05/11] arm: redirect fp constant data directives through a wrapper Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 06/11] arm: change default FPUs from FPA to none Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 07/11] arm: remove options to select the FPA Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 08/11] arm: remove FPA instructions from assembler Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 09/11] arm: remove disassembly support for the FPA co-processor Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` [PATCH 10/11] arm: minor documentation cleanup given removal of FPA Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-04 11:56 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2024-06-06 1:14 ` [PATCH 00/11] [2nd resend] arm: Remove FPA support from gas/binutils Alan Modra
2024-06-06 10:25 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2024-06-06 10:41 ` Richard Earnshaw
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-06-03 15:14 [PATCH 00/11] [resend] " Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-03 15:15 ` [PATCH 11/11] NEWS: arm: note that FPA support has been removed Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-03 11:49 [PATCH 00/11] arm: Remove FPA support from gas/binutils Richard Earnshaw
2024-06-03 11:49 ` [PATCH 11/11] NEWS: arm: note that FPA support has been removed Richard Earnshaw
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