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Subject: Re: [v5,
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On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 12:19:21 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The powerpc toolchain can compile combinations of 32/64 bit and
> big/little endian, so it's convenient to consider, e.g.,
> 
>   `CC -m64 -mbig-endian`
> 
> To be the C compiler for the purpose of invoking it to build target
> artifacts. So overriding the the CC variable to include thse flags
> works for this purpose.
> 
> Unfortunately that is not compatible with the way the proposed new
> Kconfig macro language will work.
> 
> After previous patches in this series, these flags can be carefully
> passed in using flags instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1421dc6d48296a9e91702743b31458

cheers