Although there may still be specific cases which can benefit from the
ARM instruction set, the Thumb2 instruction set is generally a better
default for armv7a class CPUs. Distros such as Debian and Fedora have
been targeting Thumb2 by default for some time.
Note that setting ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET has no effect unless
TUNE_FEATURES contains "thumb" (which is controlled by the "t" suffix
in DEFAULTTUNE, e.g. armv7vehf-neon -vs- armv7vethf-neon, etc) so out
of tree machine configs may need to update their DEFAULTTUNE to take
advantage of this change.
Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
DEFAULTTUNE ?= "armv7athf"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET ?= "thumb"
TUNEVALID[armv7a] = "Enable instructions for ARMv7-a"
TUNECONFLICTS[armv7a] = "armv4 armv5 armv6 armv7"
