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<title>Merge tag 'v7.3-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6</title>
<updated>2026-08-20T00:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-20T00:25:42+00:00</published>
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 "API:
   - Add af_alg_restrict sysctl and white list
   - Fix potential suspend/resume races in hwrng

  Algorithms:
   - Optimize vli additive operations using compiler builtins in ecc

  Drivers:
   - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms from qce
   - Mark qce as BROKEN
   - Add runtime PM and interconnect bandwidth scaling support to qce
   - Remove crypto_rng from qcom, sun8i and caam
   - Fix SG list issues in iaa
   - Fix SEV init path bugs in ccp"

* tag 'v7.3-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (122 commits)
  crypto: lskcipher - propagate errors from unaligned crypt
  crypto: keembay - use crypto_memneq() to compare CCM AEAD tags
  crypto: keembay - use crypto_memneq() to compare GCM AEAD tags
  crypto: sa2ul - use crypto_memneq() to compare AEAD tag
  hwrng: drivers - use named initializers for acpi_device_id
  crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation
  crypto: iaa - unmap dst before software fallback on decompress
  crypto: iaa - use bounce buffer for multi-sg decompress input
  crypto: iaa - avoid counting fallback decompression bytes
  crypto: iaa - fall back to software for multi-entry scatterlists
  hwrng: core - Stop/start hwrng_fillfn() kthread before/after suspend-resume
  crypto: hisilicon/sec2 - fix CCM algorithm long packet failure
  crypto: eip93 - use struct_size() and flexible array for ring allocation
  crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers
  crypto: af_alg - Stop after finding name in allowlist
  crypto: af_alg - Replace 'bool privileged' with flags
  crypto: af_alg - Make cbc(paes) privileged-only
  hwrng: imx-rngc - Disable clock on registration failure
  crypto: qat - remove dead ADF_HEX code
  crypto: qce - simplify qce_handle_request
  ...
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 "API:
   - Add af_alg_restrict sysctl and white list
   - Fix potential suspend/resume races in hwrng

  Algorithms:
   - Optimize vli additive operations using compiler builtins in ecc

  Drivers:
   - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms from qce
   - Mark qce as BROKEN
   - Add runtime PM and interconnect bandwidth scaling support to qce
   - Remove crypto_rng from qcom, sun8i and caam
   - Fix SG list issues in iaa
   - Fix SEV init path bugs in ccp"

* tag 'v7.3-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (122 commits)
  crypto: lskcipher - propagate errors from unaligned crypt
  crypto: keembay - use crypto_memneq() to compare CCM AEAD tags
  crypto: keembay - use crypto_memneq() to compare GCM AEAD tags
  crypto: sa2ul - use crypto_memneq() to compare AEAD tag
  hwrng: drivers - use named initializers for acpi_device_id
  crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation
  crypto: iaa - unmap dst before software fallback on decompress
  crypto: iaa - use bounce buffer for multi-sg decompress input
  crypto: iaa - avoid counting fallback decompression bytes
  crypto: iaa - fall back to software for multi-entry scatterlists
  hwrng: core - Stop/start hwrng_fillfn() kthread before/after suspend-resume
  crypto: hisilicon/sec2 - fix CCM algorithm long packet failure
  crypto: eip93 - use struct_size() and flexible array for ring allocation
  crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers
  crypto: af_alg - Stop after finding name in allowlist
  crypto: af_alg - Replace 'bool privileged' with flags
  crypto: af_alg - Make cbc(paes) privileged-only
  hwrng: imx-rngc - Disable clock on registration failure
  crypto: qat - remove dead ADF_HEX code
  crypto: qce - simplify qce_handle_request
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'soc-arm-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T02:50:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-19T02:50:40+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "The 32-bit Arm platforms are a bit more interesting this time: I
  refreshed an earlier series to mark code as deprecated that does have
  the tendency of getting in the way of cleanups and new features but
  has close to zero users. Among these are:

   - 22 of the remaining 28 legacy board files that predate the current
     devicetree based descriptions, using old chips from Intel and
     Marvell. The remaining six board files are for TI OMAP1 and Samsung
     s3c64xx chips and all still have known users.

   - support for Cortex-M3/M4/M7 and ARM1136r0 CPU cores and the 25
     machines based on these. These all use devicetree but the CPU
     support causes disproportional work. Most of them are just
     reference boards, the notable exceptions being the Nokia N800/N810
     tablet and the Buglabs BUG platform.

   - be8, be32, oabi and iwmmxt userspace binaries, which were mostly
     associated with the platforms now scheduled for removal and are
     increasingly problematic to support with modern toolchains.

  Nothing is actually removed at this point, to ensure that any
  remaining users continue to have the 7.3-LTS for a while longer.
  Patches for removal are currently being tested.

  Other updates include a continued work to convert GPIO number based
  interfaces to descriptors, a patch to restore little-endian mode on
  the one Arm platform (ixp4xx) that only worked in big-endian mode
  recently, and some minor cleanups and bugfixes"

* tag 'soc-arm-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (41 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Drop redundant lists from various Samsung entries
  ARM: tegra: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__
  ARM: tegra: Fix OF node reference leaks in IRQ init
  ARM: lpc32xx: remove a few manually populated OF devices
  ARM: lpc32xx: only run SoC init on LPC32xx hardware
  firmware: imx: scu: manage mailbox channels and global handle
  ARM: sa1100: h3xxx: convert gpio-keys to use software nodes
  ARM: sa1100: collie: convert gpio-keys to use software nodes
  ARM: sa1100: assabet: convert gpio-keys to use software nodes
  gpio: sa1100: register software node for GPIO controller
  ARM: ixp4xx: Relax endianness
  ARM: replace linux/gpio.h inclusions
  soc: imx9: devm_kasprintf error handling
  ARM: mark mv78xx0 support as deprecated
  ARM: mark axxia platform as deprecated
  ARM: mark Cortex-M3/M4/M7 based boards as deprecated
  ARM: mark footbridge as deprecated
  ARM: mark RiscPC as deprecated
  ARM: mark mach-sa1100 as deprecated
  ARM: orion5x: mark all board files as deprecated
  ...
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Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "The 32-bit Arm platforms are a bit more interesting this time: I
  refreshed an earlier series to mark code as deprecated that does have
  the tendency of getting in the way of cleanups and new features but
  has close to zero users. Among these are:

   - 22 of the remaining 28 legacy board files that predate the current
     devicetree based descriptions, using old chips from Intel and
     Marvell. The remaining six board files are for TI OMAP1 and Samsung
     s3c64xx chips and all still have known users.

   - support for Cortex-M3/M4/M7 and ARM1136r0 CPU cores and the 25
     machines based on these. These all use devicetree but the CPU
     support causes disproportional work. Most of them are just
     reference boards, the notable exceptions being the Nokia N800/N810
     tablet and the Buglabs BUG platform.

   - be8, be32, oabi and iwmmxt userspace binaries, which were mostly
     associated with the platforms now scheduled for removal and are
     increasingly problematic to support with modern toolchains.

  Nothing is actually removed at this point, to ensure that any
  remaining users continue to have the 7.3-LTS for a while longer.
  Patches for removal are currently being tested.

  Other updates include a continued work to convert GPIO number based
  interfaces to descriptors, a patch to restore little-endian mode on
  the one Arm platform (ixp4xx) that only worked in big-endian mode
  recently, and some minor cleanups and bugfixes"

* tag 'soc-arm-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (41 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Drop redundant lists from various Samsung entries
  ARM: tegra: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__
  ARM: tegra: Fix OF node reference leaks in IRQ init
  ARM: lpc32xx: remove a few manually populated OF devices
  ARM: lpc32xx: only run SoC init on LPC32xx hardware
  firmware: imx: scu: manage mailbox channels and global handle
  ARM: sa1100: h3xxx: convert gpio-keys to use software nodes
  ARM: sa1100: collie: convert gpio-keys to use software nodes
  ARM: sa1100: assabet: convert gpio-keys to use software nodes
  gpio: sa1100: register software node for GPIO controller
  ARM: ixp4xx: Relax endianness
  ARM: replace linux/gpio.h inclusions
  soc: imx9: devm_kasprintf error handling
  ARM: mark mv78xx0 support as deprecated
  ARM: mark axxia platform as deprecated
  ARM: mark Cortex-M3/M4/M7 based boards as deprecated
  ARM: mark footbridge as deprecated
  ARM: mark RiscPC as deprecated
  ARM: mark mach-sa1100 as deprecated
  ARM: orion5x: mark all board files as deprecated
  ...
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<entry>
<title>crypto: qce - Mark QCE as BROKEN</title>
<updated>2026-07-17T08:09:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Demi Marie Obenour</name>
<email>demiobenour@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-12T21:31:31+00:00</published>
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This driver is harmful:

- It is much slower than the CPU [1] [2].
- It Has a history of bugs [2] [3].
- It does not have exclusive access to the hardware [4], causing races
  with the secure world.
- It register its implementations with too low a cra_priority for them
  to be actually used [5].

Therefore, disable it to ensure that nobody builds it into kernels they
intend to ship.

In the future, the driver will be used for processing restricted media
content.  However, the kernel does not currently support this.  Since
the driver will have future uses, allow building it if COMPILE_TEST is
enabled.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704070322.20692-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250615031807.GA81869@sol/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260706-qce-fix-self-tests-v5-0-86f461ff1829@oss.qualcomm.com/
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260629-qcom-qce-cmd-descr-v20-0-56f67da84c05@oss.qualcomm.com/
[5]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260524204537.GB110177@quark/

Fixes: ec8f5d8f6f76 ("crypto: qce - Qualcomm crypto engine driver")
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour &lt;demiobenour@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This driver is harmful:

- It is much slower than the CPU [1] [2].
- It Has a history of bugs [2] [3].
- It does not have exclusive access to the hardware [4], causing races
  with the secure world.
- It register its implementations with too low a cra_priority for them
  to be actually used [5].

Therefore, disable it to ensure that nobody builds it into kernels they
intend to ship.

In the future, the driver will be used for processing restricted media
content.  However, the kernel does not currently support this.  Since
the driver will have future uses, allow building it if COMPILE_TEST is
enabled.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704070322.20692-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250615031807.GA81869@sol/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260706-qce-fix-self-tests-v5-0-86f461ff1829@oss.qualcomm.com/
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260629-qcom-qce-cmd-descr-v20-0-56f67da84c05@oss.qualcomm.com/
[5]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260524204537.GB110177@quark/

Fixes: ec8f5d8f6f76 ("crypto: qce - Qualcomm crypto engine driver")
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour &lt;demiobenour@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm: omap2plus_defconfig: Enable multi-LED</title>
<updated>2026-07-06T18:41:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Kemnade</name>
<email>andreas@kemnade.info</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-02T13:52:44+00:00</published>
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Enable drivers needed to use RGB LEDs composed of multiple monochromatic
LEDs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade &lt;andreas@kemnade.info&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-b200multiled-v1-2-c1799ad45c96@kemnade.info
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman (TI) &lt;khilman@baylibre.com&gt;
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Enable drivers needed to use RGB LEDs composed of multiple monochromatic
LEDs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade &lt;andreas@kemnade.info&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-b200multiled-v1-2-c1799ad45c96@kemnade.info
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman (TI) &lt;khilman@baylibre.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>hwrng: qcom - Move qcom-rng.c into drivers/char/hw_random/</title>
<updated>2026-07-05T05:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-08T17:58:48+00:00</published>
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Since this file just implements a hwrng driver, move it into
drivers/char/hw_random/.  Rename the kconfig option accordingly as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Since this file just implements a hwrng driver, move it into
drivers/char/hw_random/.  Rename the kconfig option accordingly as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: orion5x: mark all board files as deprecated</title>
<updated>2026-07-03T18:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-23T09:14:28+00:00</published>
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Conversion of the old orion5x board files to devicetree has
stalled over the past few years, so it seems better to remove
the remaining ones in order to allow  cleaning up the device
drivers.

Debian and OpenWRT no longer support orion5x, and buildroot
could keep using linux-7.3-LTS for a few more years.

Jeremy Peper still plans to convert the Terastation 2 Pro
to devicetree in the future, but that can be done even
after it is removed.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Conversion of the old orion5x board files to devicetree has
stalled over the past few years, so it seems better to remove
the remaining ones in order to allow  cleaning up the device
drivers.

Debian and OpenWRT no longer support orion5x, and buildroot
could keep using linux-7.3-LTS for a few more years.

Jeremy Peper still plans to convert the Terastation 2 Pro
to devicetree in the future, but that can be done even
after it is removed.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: PXA: mark remaining board files as deprecated</title>
<updated>2026-07-03T18:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-23T10:22:43+00:00</published>
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In the 2021 board file removal, the gumstix and sharpsl
support was left around in order to make it easier to convert
more of the PXA platform to device tree, given that both
platforms had some level of support in qemu.

As far as I can tell, nobody has worked on additional DT
conversion in that time, and qemu has in turn deprecated
the entire PXA platform.

Schedule the remaining board files for removal now, as they
are unlikely to be of any help in the future. If anyone
wants to revive support for these machines, they can
obviously still contribute device tree based code and
work on updating the corresponding drivers.

Any drivers that are only usable on legacy PXA board files
can also get removed along with the boards, or saved by
adding devicetree support.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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In the 2021 board file removal, the gumstix and sharpsl
support was left around in order to make it easier to convert
more of the PXA platform to device tree, given that both
platforms had some level of support in qemu.

As far as I can tell, nobody has worked on additional DT
conversion in that time, and qemu has in turn deprecated
the entire PXA platform.

Schedule the remaining board files for removal now, as they
are unlikely to be of any help in the future. If anyone
wants to revive support for these machines, they can
obviously still contribute device tree based code and
work on updating the corresponding drivers.

Any drivers that are only usable on legacy PXA board files
can also get removed along with the boards, or saved by
adding devicetree support.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: turn CONFIG_ATAGS off by default</title>
<updated>2026-07-03T18:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-20T21:16:45+00:00</published>
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Only a very small number of machines remain that rely on
traditional board files with the ATAGS boot data instead
of devicetree, and we have not accepted new ones for
a decade.

Most of the remaining ones are on their way out of the
kernel, but the Kconfig option that controls ATAGS
is still enabled by default.

To reflect the actual status of ATAGS support and alert
the remaining users of upstream and out-of-tree platforms
with this, change it to being default-disabled and
add a dependency on CONFIG_EXPERT.

The board specific defconfig files that rely on ATAGS
are changed to turn on both EXPERT and ATAGS if they
were not doing that already, and the ones that explicitly
turned it off before no longer need to.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt; # OMAP
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Only a very small number of machines remain that rely on
traditional board files with the ATAGS boot data instead
of devicetree, and we have not accepted new ones for
a decade.

Most of the remaining ones are on their way out of the
kernel, but the Kconfig option that controls ATAGS
is still enabled by default.

To reflect the actual status of ATAGS support and alert
the remaining users of upstream and out-of-tree platforms
with this, change it to being default-disabled and
add a dependency on CONFIG_EXPERT.

The board specific defconfig files that rely on ATAGS
are changed to turn on both EXPERT and ATAGS if they
were not doing that already, and the ones that explicitly
turned it off before no longer need to.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt; # OMAP
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: limit OABI support to StrongARM CPUs</title>
<updated>2026-07-03T18:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-20T08:45:38+00:00</published>
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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/
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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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/
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<title>ARM: use CONFIG_AEABI by default everywhere</title>
<updated>2026-07-03T18:36:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-03T08:59:31+00:00</published>
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On ARMv4 and ARMv5, the default is still to build for OABI, with
CONFIG_AEABI disabled, even though distros and toolchains no longer
support OABI as a target.

Change the default to EABI for all architecture levels and change
the defconfig entries as follows:

 - All machines that used to explicitly enable EABI can drop that line now
 - Machines that are likely to actually use old distros and had NWFPE
   enabled in combination with OABI (rpc, footrbridge, netwinder,
   assabet, neponset) explicitly turn it on now.
 - Machines that already had both EABI and NWFPE disabled in defconfig
   (spear3xx, spear6xx) were likely not usable with either OABI or
   EABI and now use EABI instead implicitly, making it more likely that
   they could work.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre &lt;nicolas.ferre@microchip.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Acked-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt; # OMAP
Acked-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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On ARMv4 and ARMv5, the default is still to build for OABI, with
CONFIG_AEABI disabled, even though distros and toolchains no longer
support OABI as a target.

Change the default to EABI for all architecture levels and change
the defconfig entries as follows:

 - All machines that used to explicitly enable EABI can drop that line now
 - Machines that are likely to actually use old distros and had NWFPE
   enabled in combination with OABI (rpc, footrbridge, netwinder,
   assabet, neponset) explicitly turn it on now.
 - Machines that already had both EABI and NWFPE disabled in defconfig
   (spear3xx, spear6xx) were likely not usable with either OABI or
   EABI and now use EABI instead implicitly, making it more likely that
   they could work.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre &lt;nicolas.ferre@microchip.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Acked-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt; # OMAP
Acked-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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