On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> 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.
It's still a binutils issue. Sounds like the toolchain being used to build the 8xx kernel is specifically built for 8xx. A generally built binutils should have worked fine (assuming it was new enough), since we pass -mcpu=405. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
