[RFC PATCH 7/8] powerpc/purgatory: drop .machine specifier

[Daniel Axtens]

Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 02:10:05PM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>> It's ignored by future versions of llvm's integrated assembler (by not -11).
>> I'm not sure what it does for us in gas.
>
> It enables all insns that exist on 620 (the first 64-bit PowerPC CPU).
>
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline_64.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline_64.S
>> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>>  #include <asm/asm-compat.h>
>>  #include <asm/crashdump-ppc64.h>
>>  
>> -	.machine ppc64
>> +//upgrade clang, gets ignored	.machine ppc64
>
> Why delete it if it is ignored?  Why add a cryptic comment?

Sorry, poor form on my part. I think I will give up on having llvm-11
work and target llvm HEAD, which means I can drop this.

>
>
> Segher