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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Don't use HOSTCFLAGS in BOOTCFLAGS
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:26:49 +0200
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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>> Also, is there any reason why you can't simply use $(CC) -m32 with
>> the kernel $(CFLAGS) ?
>
> I did think about that.  But the kernel CFLAGS does includes
> -ffixed-r2 and -Iarch/powerpc which I don't think we want here.

Both of these should be fairly harmless.  But sure, it
is cleaner to have separate flags -- the booter and the
kernel run in different environments, after all.


Segher