From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:36:52 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Alan Modra Cc: Hollis Blanchard , Geert Uytterhoeven , Olaf Hering , Stef Simoens , Linux/PPC Development , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix missing option in binutils version check Message-ID: <20040726193652.GE28588@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20040614211931.GA21113@suse.de> <20040615161258.GA14528@smtp.west.cox.net> <20040615172511.GA21667@suse.de> <20040615174648.GC14528@smtp.west.cox.net> <20040703222918.GA10425@suse.de> <40E75DC7.7070601@coditel.net> <20040704024149.GB2146@smtp.west.cox.net> <20040725060754.GE7099@bubble.modra.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20040725060754.GE7099@bubble.modra.org> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 03:37:54PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:33:31AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > On Jul 4, 2004, at 3:32 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > > >Perhaps it makes sense to add a directive to the assembler to switch > > >on the > > >fly, cfr. the `.chip' directive on m68k? E.g. using > > > > > > .chip 68040 > > > > > >we switch to 68040 mode, and using > > > > > > .chip 68k > > > > > >we switch back to generic mode. That way we can have instructions for > > >different > > >CPU types in the same kernel, while the assembler still checks the > > >validity > > >depending on the selected CPU type. > > > > That's come up before, and iirc Alan Modra said the support isn't there > > now for PPC and is relatively low on the priority list (but is on it). > > Implemented 2003-11-22 for ppc. Even documented. :-) But working in what versions of binutils ? -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/