Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-08-21T12:07:33Z

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> This series is an attempt to remove the SUBARCH make parameter.
> It as introduced at the times of Linux 2.5 for UML to tell the UML
> build system what the real architecture is.
>
> But we actually don't need SUBARCH, we can store this information
> in the .config file.

Haha, now you have OS_ARCH (shouldn't that be called HOST_ARCH?) instead,
which is available only for UM?

> 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.

> [PATCH 1/8] um: Create defconfigs for i386 and x86_64
> [PATCH 3/8] um: Remove old defconfig

Why not merge these two, so git copy/rename detection will show only the real
changes?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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