On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 00:14 +0200, Frank E. Svendsbøe wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:03:04AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 00:53 +0200, Frank Svendsbøe wrote: > > > > > Hi Josh Boyer, > > > > > > just wanted to add that I'm experiencing the same problem that Robert > > > reported, but on 8xx instead of 4xx. The mpc8xx does not support the > > > mfdcrx instruction, so maybe it's more to it than just a binutils bug? > > > > The kernel shouldn't have tried to build that instruction on 8xx, though > > I suppose if it's in arch/powerpc/boot, we are a bit too eager at > > building everything including what's not relevant, we might to be a bit > > more careful at excluding 4xx stuff on a 8xx kernel. > > > > Yes. I agree on Wolfgangs statement regarding not building code we > don't want/need. Please explain to me why src-wlib/src-plat in > arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile includes every ppc target...
Ok, I've asked Tony to have a look at splitting the build decision in arch/powerpc/boot along the same lines as the CPU families... ie only wrappers for platforms potentially supported by the built kernel. That should fix it. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
