Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: Add new target ppc64el-linux-user

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

On 05/08/2014 02:28 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 May 2014 13:18, Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:
>> Am 08.05.2014 10:26, schrieb Doug Kwan:
>>> Add a new user mode target for little-endian PPC64.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Doug Kwan <dougkwan@google.com>
>>> ---
>>>   configure                              | 6 ++++++
>>>   default-configs/ppc64el-linux-user.mak | 1 +
>>>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644 default-configs/ppc64el-linux-user.mak
>>>
>>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>>> index ac2fa15..ce44044 100755
>>> --- a/configure
>>> +++ b/configure
>>> @@ -4917,6 +4917,12 @@ case "$target_name" in
>>>       echo "TARGET_ABI32=y" >> $config_target_mak
>>>       gdb_xml_files="power64-core.xml power-fpu.xml power-altivec.xml power-spe.xml"
>>>     ;;
>>> +  ppc64el)
>> In SUSE's build system and everywhere I read people talking about it,
>> including your 2/3, it's called ppc64le. Why did you choose ppc64el?
> In general we should follow what the kernel does, ie
> the output of 'uname -m' (which hopefully coincides with
> the gcc triplet name). What is that for this case?

$ uname -a
Linux shiraz-1 3.15.0-rc4-2-default+ #22 SMP Wed May 7 22:57:22 CEST 
2014 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

Thanks a lot for the catch. Just because Debian has it all backwards we 
don't have to as well ;).


Alex