Re: [PATCH 4.14.y] powerpc: Fix defconfig choice logic when cross compiling

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 02:23:01PM +0000, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> 
> Our logic for choosing defconfig doesn't work well in some situations.
> 
> For example if you're on a ppc64le machine but you specify a non-empty
> CROSS_COMPILE, in order to use a non-default toolchain, then defconfig
> will give you ppc64_defconfig (big endian):
> 
>   $ make CROSS_COMPILE=~/toolchains/gcc-8/bin/powerpc-linux- defconfig
>   *** Default configuration is based on 'ppc64_defconfig'
> 
> This is because we assume that CROSS_COMPILE being set means we
> can't be on a ppc machine and rather than checking we just default to
> ppc64_defconfig.
> 
> We should just ignore CROSS_COMPILE, instead check the machine with
> uname and if it's one of ppc, ppc64 or ppc64le then use that
> defconfig. If it's none of those then we fall back to ppc64_defconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> (cherry picked from commit af5cd05de5dd38cf25d14ea4d30ae9b791d2420b)
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/Makefile | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> index 9c78ef298257..cbc7c05a6165 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> @@ -29,11 +29,10 @@ endif
>  
>  export CROSS32CC CROSS32AR
>  
> -ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
> -KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := $(shell uname -m)_defconfig
> -else
> -KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := ppc64_defconfig
> -endif
> +# If we're on a ppc/ppc64/ppc64le machine use that defconfig, otherwise just use
> +# ppc64_defconfig because we have nothing better to go on.
> +uname := $(shell uname -m)
> +KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := $(if $(filter ppc%,$(uname)),$(uname),ppc64)_defconfig
>  
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC64),y)
>  new_nm := $(shell if $(NM) --help 2>&1 | grep -- '--synthetic' > /dev/null; then echo y; else echo n; fi)
> 
> base-commit: 1914956342c8cf52a377aecc4944e63f9229cb9b

Both now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h