[U-Boot] [PATCH] Default to HOSTARCH if ARCH isn't specified

Scott Wood
2009-04-20T20:49:18Z

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Kumar Gala,
>
> In message <1240247017-1069-1-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index e91c051..c56d6db 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),powerpc)
>> ARCH = ppc
>> endif
>>
>> +ifndef ARCH
>> +ARCH = $(HOSTARCH)
>> +endif
>> +
>
> In current mainline U-Boot, such a patch is not needed (which is just a
> friendly version of saying it does not make sense :-), because ARCH
> gets loaded from include/config.mk after running "make <board>_config".

In which case, we should probably add "override" to the place where it
is set, so as to avoid interference from any ARCH variable that might be
set (we could then remove the powerpc->ppc bit).

-Scott