On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:41:59 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The ".machine" directive allows changing the machine for which code is
> being generated. It's equivalent to passing an -mcpu option on the
> command line.
>
> Although it can be useful, it's generally a bad idea because it adds
> another way to influence code generation separate from the flags
> passed via the build system. ie. if we need to build different pieces
> of code with different flags we should do that via our Makefiles, not
> using ".machine".
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/1] powerpc/kexec: Don't use .machine ppc64 in trampoline_64.S
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/acd4dfeb49c8ec1071b1e67683c5779e97fdc5b9
cheers
