Can't build a CONFIG_CPU_NEVADA kernel

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

I've been trying for a couple of days now to build a MIPS kernel with
CONFIG_CPU_NEVADA, and I can't get it to work.  r4k_switch.S produces a
pile of "opcode not supported by processor" errors.

First, I figured out where the problem is coming from:

r4k_switch.S is included for all processors but the r3000 and r3912. 
Is that really correct?  Then, it references FPU_SAVE_DOUBLE, which
includes:

        cfc1    tmp,  fcr31;                    \
        sdc1    $f0,  (THREAD_FPU + 0x000)(thread); \
        sdc1    $f2,  (THREAD_FPU + 0x010)(thread); \


The sdc1 instruction in binutils is flagged like this:
      if (mips_cpu == CPU_R4650)
        {
          as_bad (_("opcode not supported on this processor"));
          return;
        }

And the IVR sets CONFIG_CPU_NEVADA, which produces
ifdef CONFIG_CPU_NEVADA
GCCFLAGS        += -mcpu=r8000 -mips2 -Wa,--trap -mmad
endif

and -mmad becomes -m4650 to the assembler.


Something is fishy here.  Anyone know what?  I have a suspicion that we
need to change the way we invoke binutils.  Making -mmad imply -m4650
just seems lame, since -m4650 also implies -msingle-float, and I don't
think that's right for the r8000.

I worked back in time in gcc, binutils, and kernel sources and I
couldn't figure out what's changed - I'm sure this worked at some
point.

Any ideas?

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