Re: [2.6 patch] fix the EMBEDDED menu

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:05:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Linus,
> > 
> > your patch to allow CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE even for EMBEDDED=n has broken 
> > the EMBEDDED menu.
> 
> It looks like that patch needs to be reverted or altered anyway.  sparc64
> machines are failing all over the place, possibly due to newly-exposed
> compiler bugs.
> 
> Whether it's the compiler or it's genuine kernel bugs, the same problems
> are likely to bite other architectures.

I believe there are instances where ARM fails if CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
is not set.  Luckily we have assertions in the generated assembly to
flag these as assembly errors when they happen, rather than silently
continuing to build.

Maybe CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE should be:

	bool "..." if BROKEN || (!ARM && !SPARC64)

? 8)

Note also that the help text:

          WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
          option.  If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.

is reversed for the situation we have with ARM.  Hence, I propose we
change this to something like:

	  WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code if this
	  option is changed form the platform default.  If problems are
	  observed, either a gcc upgrade may be needed or alternatively
	  the platform default should be selected (=y for ARM and Sparc64,
	  n for others.)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core