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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdnhmcmGgSfKG0KEOEbf=WZnixV6c838ArQ8EOXUXqxfMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:34:52 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>, oss@...error.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Drop -me200 addition to build flags

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 4:09 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote:
>
> Currently a build with CONFIG_E200=y will fail with:
>
>   Error: invalid switch -me200
>   Error: unrecognized option -me200
>
> Upstream binutils has never supported an -me200 option. Presumably it
> was supported at some point by either a fork or Freescale internal
> binutils.
>
> We can't support code that we can't even build test, so drop the
> addition of -me200 to the build flags, so we can at least build with
> CONFIG_E200=y.
>
> Reported-by: Németh Márton <nm127@...email.hu>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

Thanks for the patch; this should make randconfig builds not pick this
non-buildable config.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

> ---
>
> More discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202011131146.g8dPLQDD-lkp@intel.com
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/Makefile | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> index a4d56f0a41d9..16b8336f91dd 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
> @@ -248,7 +248,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS               += $(call cc-option,-mno-string)
>  cpu-as-$(CONFIG_40x)           += -Wa,-m405
>  cpu-as-$(CONFIG_44x)           += -Wa,-m440
>  cpu-as-$(CONFIG_ALTIVEC)       += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-maltivec)
> -cpu-as-$(CONFIG_E200)          += -Wa,-me200
>  cpu-as-$(CONFIG_E500)          += -Wa,-me500
>
>  # When using '-many -mpower4' gas will first try and find a matching power4
> --
> 2.25.1
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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