[PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 18 01:31:30 EST 2008


On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the  
>> SPE
>> instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
>> 6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a.
>>
>
> The unknown reason was that my PPC64 failed to compile without  
> it ;-) It was unknown because I forgot to mention that in the change  
> log (my bad).
>
> On Monday, I'll apply this patch and make sure that my PPC64 still  
> compiles.
>
> -- Steve

Thanks, if you can Ack the patch today if it works for you that would  
be great.

- k

>
>
>> We are removing it because:
>>
>> 1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
>> 2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
>> 3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
>> 4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>> ---
>> kernel/Makefile |    4 +---
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>




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