[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: make CPU selection logic generic in Makefile

[Michael Ellerman]

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:

> At the time being, when adding a new CPU for selection, both
> Kconfig.cputype and Makefile have to be modified.
>
> This patch moves into Kconfig.cputype the name of the CPU to me
> passed to the -mcpu= argument.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/Makefile                  |  8 +-------
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> index 9704ab360d39..9a5642552abc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> @@ -175,13 +175,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_MPROFILE_KERNEL
>      endif
>  endif
>  
> -CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CELL_CPU) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=cell)
> -CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_POWER5_CPU) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=power5)
> -CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_POWER6_CPU) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=power6)
> -CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_POWER7_CPU) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=power7)
> -CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_POWER8_CPU) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=power8)
> -CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_POWER9_CPU) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=power9)
> -CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC_8xx) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=860)
> +CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_SPECIAL_CPU_BOOL) += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=$(CONFIG_SPECIAL_CPU))

This looks good.

I'll rename it from "SPECIAL_CPU" to "TARGET_CPU" because that's the
terminology used in the GCC docs, eg:

    -mcpu=name
           Specify the name of the target processor, optionally suffixed by one or more feature modifiers.


cheers