On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 13:19:04 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Historically the boot wrapper was always built 32-bit big endian, even
> for 64-bit kernels. That was because old firmwares didn't necessarily
> support booting a 64-bit image. Because of that arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> uses CROSS32CC for compilation.
>
> However when we added 64-bit little endian support, we also added
> support for building the boot wrapper 64-bit. However we kept using
> CROSS32CC, because in most cases it is just CC and everything works.
>
> However if the user doesn't specify CROSS32_COMPILE (which no one ever
> does AFAIK), and CC is *not* biarch (32/64-bit capable), then CROSS32CC
> becomes just "gcc". On native systems that is probably OK, but if we're
> cross building it definitely isn't, leading to eg:
>
> gcc ... -m64 -mlittle-endian -mabi=elfv2 ... arch/powerpc/boot/cpm-serial.c
> gcc: error: unrecognized argument in option â-mabi=elfv2â
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option â-mlittle-endianâ
> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
>
> To fix it, stop using CROSS32CC, because we may or may not be building
> 32-bit. Instead setup a BOOTCC, which defaults to CC, and only use
> CROSS32_COMPILE if it's set and we're building for 32-bit.
>
> Fixes: 147c05168fc8 ("powerpc/boot: Add support for 64bit little endian
> wrapper")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc fixes.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/65c5ec11c25eff6ba6e9b1cbfff014
cheers
