Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

Rob Landley
2013-08-22T20:41:17Z

On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> wrote:
> >> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32.
> >> > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH !=
> SUBARCH.
> >> > Do really need that behavior?
> >>
> >> This does remove functionality.
> >> It allows to build a kernel using e.g. "make ARCH=m68k".
> >>
> >> Perhaps this can be moved to generic code? Most (not all!)
> cross-toolchains
> >> are called $ARCH-{unknown-,}linux{,-gnu}.
> >> Exceptions are e.g. am33_2.0-linux and bfin-uclinux.
> >
> > Today you can specify CROSS_COMPILE in Kconfig.
> > With this we should be able to remove these hacks.
>
> The correct CROSS_COMPILE value depends on the host environment, not
> on the target configuration.

Actually it depends on _both_.

Rob