[PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix bootwrapper builds with newer gcc versions

[Kumar Gala]

On May 2, 2008, at 4:40 PM, David Miller wrote:

> From: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:28:36 -0500
>
>> Sorry, I meant the gcc patch.  I'm not sure if this has been  
>> committed
>> to FSF head or not.
>
> If that's the case it would be a good idea to suggest a command line
> option to disable the new out-of-line code generation feature of that
> patch.
>
> But if the stubs it calls are really simple, you can just add
> implementations under arch/powerpc/lib/, and therefore it's
> not such a big deal.  This is what we've traditionally done
> with libcalls generated by gcc for runtime support.

They are pretty simple.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=18292
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=18290

I've got a toolchain from CodeSourcery that has the GCC change in it  
and was posting this as preemptive for the point in time when FSF GCC  
has it.  At which point the whole discussion about why don't we just  
link libgcc started up :)

- k