xcompile: always use -march=i686

When compiling coreboot for x86 on gcc the compiler is
free to pick whatever defaults it is using at the time of
gcc's compile/configuration when no -march is specified.
Not properly specifying -march then opens up the use of SSE
instructions for compilation units it should not be used such
as the SMM module as this module doesn't save/restore SSE
registers.

Change-Id: I64d4a6c5fa9fadb4b35bc7097458e992a094dcba
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/172640
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com>
(cherry picked from commit d49358f7959bb52c3e7ff67d37c21a1b294adf72)
Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6716
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util/xcompile/xcompile b/util/xcompile/xcompile
index 01d75bf337..4b18942be2 100755
--- a/util/xcompile/xcompile
+++ b/util/xcompile/xcompile
@@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ detect_special_flags() {
 	x86)
 		testcc "$CC"   "$CFLAGS -Wa,--divide" &&
 			CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wa,--divide"
+		# Always build for i686 -- no sse/mmx instructions since SMM
+		# modules are compiled using these flags. Note that this
+		# doesn't prevent a project using xcompile to explicitly
+		# specify -mmsse, etc flags.
+		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS  -march=i686"
 		;;
 	esac
 }