MIPS: Fix build with binutils 2.24.51+

Starting with version 2.24.51.20140728 MIPS binutils complain loudly
about mixing soft-float and hard-float object files, leading to this
build failure since GCC is invoked with "-msoft-float" on MIPS:

{standard input}: Warning: .gnu_attribute 4,3 requires `softfloat'
  LD      arch/mips/alchemy/common/built-in.o
mipsel-softfloat-linux-gnu-ld: Warning: arch/mips/alchemy/common/built-in.o
 uses -msoft-float (set by arch/mips/alchemy/common/prom.o),
 arch/mips/alchemy/common/sleeper.o uses -mhard-float

To fix this, we detect if GAS is new enough to support "-msoft-float" command
option, and if it does, we can let GCC pass it to GAS;  but then we also need
to sprinkle the files which make use of floating point registers with the
necessary ".set hardfloat" directives.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8355/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 23cb94806fbc..58076472bdd8 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -93,6 +93,15 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux			+= -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib
 KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE            += -mlong-calls
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE            += -mlong-calls
 
+#
+# pass -msoft-float to GAS if it supports it.  However on newer binutils
+# (specifically newer than 2.24.51.20140728) we then also need to explicitly
+# set ".set hardfloat" in all files which manipulate floating point registers.
+#
+ifneq ($(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-msoft-float,),)
+        cflags-y                += -DGAS_HAS_SET_HARDFLOAT -Wa,-msoft-float
+endif
+
 cflags-y += -ffreestanding
 
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