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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Svendsbøe" <frank.svendsboe@gmail.com>,
	"Wolfgang Denk" <wd@denx.de>,
	robert.karl.berger@gmail.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:08:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333400910.30734.54.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA6jQgme0sS=i8yYX6b_R5179+BtWPh7QXCGNfoLTCt46A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 08:10 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 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.
> 
> It's still a binutils issue.  Sounds like the toolchain being used to
> build the 8xx kernel is specifically built for 8xx.  A generally built
> binutils should have worked fine (assuming it was new enough), since
> we pass -mcpu=405.

Still, it makes sense to limit the building of the wrappers to the CPU
family of the kernel...

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 21:08 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
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 [this message]
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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