[PATCH] powerpc: Use -mcpu=power7 on ppc64 little endian builds

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Tue Oct 22 11:05:25 EST 2013


Using -mcpu=power7 allows gcc to use a number of new instructions
including 64 bit byte reversed loads.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index 6704e2e..c2a566f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -93,22 +93,23 @@ choice
 
 config GENERIC_CPU
 	bool "Generic"
+	depends on !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 
 config CELL_CPU
 	bool "Cell Broadband Engine"
-	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 
 config POWER4_CPU
 	bool "POWER4"
-	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 
 config POWER5_CPU
 	bool "POWER5"
-	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 
 config POWER6_CPU
 	bool "POWER6"
-	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 
 config POWER7_CPU
 	bool "POWER7"


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