Re: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Inline helpers into Rust without full LTO

Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:47:40 +0100

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 11:10 AM Alice Ryhl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I noticed that the Makefile currently uses the arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
> target. It should probably not be -linux target to avoid this? Probably
> it should just be armv7a-none-eabi, right? We gate HAVE_RUST on
> CPU_32v7, so we should not need to consider the other variants.

I think Christian tried several targets back then and eventually
picked that one.

Christian: what was the reason to pick the `-linux-` one? e.g. was
there something you wanted to rely on that target spec that you
couldn't enable or disable via `rustc` flags or similar?

Cc'ing a few folks.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel