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ARM: limit OABI support to StrongARM CPUs

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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 <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Arnd Bergmann 2024-08-20 10:45:38 +02:00
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