From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Frank E. Svendsbøe" <frank.svendsboe@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>,
robert.karl.berger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:01:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333332115.30734.27.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120401221359.GA31730@gnubox>
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 00:14 +0200, Frank E. Svendsbøe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:03:04AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 00:53 +0200, Frank Svendsbøe wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Josh Boyer,
> > >
> > > just wanted to add that I'm experiencing the same problem that Robert
> > > reported, but on 8xx instead of 4xx. The mpc8xx does not support the
> > > mfdcrx instruction, so maybe it's more to it than just a binutils bug?
> >
> > The kernel shouldn't have tried to build that instruction on 8xx, though
> > I suppose if it's in arch/powerpc/boot, we are a bit too eager at
> > building everything including what's not relevant, we might to be a bit
> > more careful at excluding 4xx stuff on a 8xx kernel.
> >
>
> Yes. I agree on Wolfgangs statement regarding not building code we
> don't want/need. Please explain to me why src-wlib/src-plat in
> arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile includes every ppc target...
Ok, I've asked Tony to have a look at splitting the build decision
in arch/powerpc/boot along the same lines as the CPU families... ie only
wrappers for platforms potentially supported by the built kernel. That
should fix it.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-02 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-21 12:10 kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2 Robert Berger
2012-03-21 13:29 ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-21 16:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-24 23:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-03-26 13:36 ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-30 22:53 ` Frank Svendsbøe
2012-03-31 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-01 22:14 ` Frank E. Svendsbøe
2012-04-02 2:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-04-02 6:28 ` Tony Breeds
2012-04-02 8:37 ` Frank E. Svendsbøe
2012-05-06 14:37 ` Robert Berger
2012-05-17 14:37 ` Frank Svendsbøe
2012-04-02 12:10 ` Josh Boyer
2012-04-02 21:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-02 21:26 ` Josh Boyer
2012-04-04 19:21 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-04-05 0:02 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-04-05 17:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-21 22:14 ` Tony Breeds
2012-03-21 22:34 ` Wolfgang Denk
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