Please pull from 'for_paulus' branch

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jun 30 02:09:28 EST 2007


On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Friday 29 June 2007, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> Would it work reliably if we switch the arguments to
>>> '-mcpu=powerpc64 -m64' instead of '-m64 -mcpu=powerpc64'? That
>>> might be better than taking it out entirely.
>>
>> Is there a reason you didn't use -mcpu=power3 and -mcpu=rs64 for
>> those to CPU options?
>
> Not an important one. From looking at gcc source, it seemed to
> me that power3, rs64 and powerpc64 all specify the same instruction
> set, so I went for the most generic one.
>
> I guess we could always pass -mcpu=power3 instead of -mcpu=powerpc64
> if that solves the problem.

It did for me, the issue is you can still get an -mcpu=powerpc64 for  
iseries via:

+	default "-mcpu=powerpc64" if PPC64

- k



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