[RFC PATCH 2/8] powerpc: check for support for -Wa,-m{power4,any}

Daniel Axtens dja at axtens.net
Thu Feb 25 14:10:00 AEDT 2021


LLVM's integrated assembler does not like either -Wa,-mpower4
or -Wa,-many. So just don't pass them if they're not supported.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
---
 arch/powerpc/Makefile | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index 08cf0eade56a..3e2c72d20bb8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -252,7 +252,9 @@ cpu-as-$(CONFIG_E500)		+= -Wa,-me500
 # When using '-many -mpower4' gas will first try and find a matching power4
 # mnemonic and failing that it will allow any valid mnemonic that GAS knows
 # about. GCC will pass -many to GAS when assembling, clang does not.
-cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)	+= -Wa,-mpower4 -Wa,-many
+# LLVM IAS doesn't understand either flag: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/675
+# but LLVM IAS only supports ISA >= 2.06 for Book3S 64 anyway...
+cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)	+= $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mpower4) $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-many)
 cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_E500MC)	+= $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-me500mc)
 
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cpu-as-y)
-- 
2.27.0



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