kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Apr 2 12:01:55 EST 2012


On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 00:14 +0200, Frank E. Svendsbøe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:03:04AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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.
> >
> 
> Yes. I agree on Wolfgangs statement regarding not building code we
> don't want/need. Please explain to me why src-wlib/src-plat in
> arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile includes every ppc target...

Ok, I've asked Tony to have a look at splitting the build decision
in arch/powerpc/boot along the same lines as the CPU families... ie only
wrappers for platforms potentially supported by the built kernel. That
should fix it.

Cheers,
Ben.




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