Same string as the kernel commit, for the three compiled aports this image
builds itself: -march=armv8.6-a+fp16fml+aes+sha3+sm4 -mtune=cortex-a720
appended to CFLAGS (and CXXFLAGS for libcamera). abuild builds these with
Alpine's GCC; the string is gcc's own -march=native expansion on the phone
re-based on armv8.6-a, and it assembles on GCC 15 with binutils 2.45.1 and
on GCC 16 (whose -mcpu=cortex-a720 expansion binutils 2.45 rejects). On the
phone itself gcc -flto, g++ and clang all compile, link and run it.
The base stops at 8.6 on purpose: this phone exposes neither SVE nor MTE
(userspace autovectorised for SVE2 would SIGILL), and not WFxT either.
pkgrel bumps so apk upgrade delivers the rebuilt binaries.
The FP6 is 4x Cortex-A520 + 4x Cortex-A720 and this image boots nothing
else, so pass the compiler KCFLAGS="-march=armv8.6-a+fp16fml+aes+sha3+sm4
-mtune=cortex-a720". The stock arm64 build gives the compiler no arch flag
at all (so one image can boot any Armv8 board).
The string is what `gcc -march=native` derives on the phone, re-based on
armv8.6-a so clang can express the same set (clang has no flagm2/rcpc2/
frintts tokens; it reaches them through the architecture level). 8.6 is the
highest level whose mandatory set the phone exposes: 8.7 would assume WFxT
and 9.x SVE2, and neither is in its hwcaps or ID registers. clang emits
identical code for this and for -mcpu=cortex-a720+nosve+nomemtag; the
difference is only which system features (SPE, ETE, TRBE, FPAC) it knows
about, none of which generate code.
Verified on eef717f978f1 with the aport config: builds with zero warnings,
same module set as r100 (417), compat vDSO untouched, boots the dev phone
with a clean dmesg and a GREEN selftest. Record:
fp6 journal/base/captures/2026-09-05-mcpu-a720-verification.md.
gitlab.freedesktop.org's on-demand archive endpoint 503/504s for hours
at a stretch: runs #25, #27, #30 and #31 all died in 'abuild checksum'
fetching the pinned libqmi tarball, outlasting the 3x30s in-run retry.
git clone is served from a different code path and holds up (verified
against all three repos while the archive endpoint was flaky), so clone
libqmi/ModemManager/libcamera (retried) and git-archive the pinned refs
into the aports, the same way the kernel and imsd tarballs are already
produced. The pins stay single-sourced in the APKBUILDs.
libcamera gains a checksum step: its committed sums were for the
fd.o-served tarball, and git-archive output is not byte-identical.
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Our MM patches require qmi-glib >= 1.39.1 (the version bumped right after
!470 merged); Alpine's April snapshot reports 1.39.0. Upstream 30f3e998
carries both the TLV work and the version bump, so the local patch goes.
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libqmi: the upstream-merged (!470, in no release yet) LOC Register Events
client-identification TLVs, taken verbatim from upstream main (532de37e).
modemmanager: the AFW engine unlock + Position Report derivation (!1463,
still draft upstream, review-hardened and verified on device). Both as
patches on Alpine's git-snapshot aports, pkgrel=100.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>