From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [4.4] Backport request: powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:01:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191114060149.GC353293@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a589ec5-7df2-788a-e354-50386ba84ffa@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 07:52:24PM +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Dear stable team
>
> Please backport the following patches.
>
> Commits:
>
> - 164af597ce945751e2dcd53d0a86e84203a6d117
> ("powerpc/Makefile: Use cflags-y/aflags-y for setting endian options")
>
> - 4dc831aa88132f835cefe876aa0206977c4d7710
> ("powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain")
>
> Stable tree targeted: 4.4 (applies cleanly)
>
> Justification: This fixes the build when attempting to compile a BE powerpc
> kernel using a bi-endian toolchain that defaults to LE, which is a common
> setup.
>
> I have tested that these patches apply cleanly and appear to rectify the
> build failure on my machine.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2019-11-12 8:52 [4.4] Backport request: powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain Andrew Donnellan
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