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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix -mcpu= options for SPE-only compiler

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix -mcpu= options for SPE-only compiler
Date 2018-12-27 03:40 +0100
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On Wed, 2018-12-26 at 17:45 -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 02:15:11PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > GCC for Debian's "powerpcspe" architecture only supports 32-bit
> > SPE targets, and using -mcpu=powerpc or -mcpu=powerpc64 is a fatal
> > error.
> 
> I don't see where your patch touches -mcpu=powerpc, and I don't see how
> it would make a difference either?

Look at the assignments that are conditional on HAS_BIARCH.

> > +ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> >  ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
> >  ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> >  CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU) += -mcpu=power8
> > @@ -177,6 +178,7 @@ endif
> >  else
> >  CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU) += -mcpu=powerpc64
> >  endif
> > +endif
> 
> How can CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 be true while CONFIG_PPC64 is fals?  That
> does not make a lot of sense.

But there is an "else" part here.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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[PATCH] powerpc: Fix -mcpu= options for SPE-only compiler Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-12-26 15:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix -mcpu= options for SPE-only compiler Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> - 2018-12-27 02:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix -mcpu= options for SPE-only compiler Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-12-27 03:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix -mcpu= options for SPE-only compiler Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> - 2018-12-29 16:40 +0100

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