[PATCH] Set cpu type explicitly, take 2

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:05 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Here is a revised version of my patch to set the cpu type explicitly
> for gcc when compiling the kernel.  Setting the cpu type is a good
> idea in any case, and particularly if you have a biarch gcc.  This
> sets the type for all of the ppc cpu families we support.
> 
> Any further comments?  Are -mcpu=860 and -mcpu=8540 reasonable for 8xx
> and 85xx respectively?  I used -mcpu=power4 rather than -mcpu=970
> because the former works with gcc-3.6.6 as in debian and the latter
> doesn't.  Unfortunately -mcpu=440 doesn't work either in gcc 3.3,
> though it does in gcc 3.4 (as does -mcpu=970).

The problem is the same as ppc64 isn't it ?, -maltivec doesn't work with
-mcpu=power4 on gcc 3.4 does it ? That would mean no RAID6...

Ben.