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Message-ID: <20211209093050.GB7077@alpha.franken.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 10:30:50 +0100
From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
Ryutaroh Matsumoto <ryutaroh@....e.titech.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Loongson2ef: Remove unnecessary {as,cc}-option
calls
On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 10:59:51AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> When building with LLVM's integrated assembler, the build errors because
> it does not implement -mfix-loongson2f-{jump,nop}:
>
> arch/mips/loongson2ef/Platform:36: *** only binutils >= 2.20.2 have needed option -mfix-loongson2f-nop. Stop.
>
> The error is a little misleading because binutils are not being used in
> this case.
>
> To clear this up, remove the as-option calls because binutils 2.23 is
> the minimum supported version for building the kernel. At the same time,
> remove the cc-option calls for the '-march=' flags, as GCC 5.1.0 is the
> minimum supported version.
>
> This change will not fix the LLVM build for CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON2{E,F},
> as it does not implement the loongson2{e,f} march arguments (nor r4600,
> so it will error prior to this change) nor the assembler flags mentioned
> above but it will make the errors more obvious.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1529
> Reported-by: Ryutaroh Matsumoto <ryutaroh@....e.titech.ac.jp>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> ---
>
> This dependency on certain toolchain flags should probably be moved into
> Kconfig at some point so that users cannot select configurations that
> they do not have support for so that their builds do not error. However,
> from a brief survey, there is not a clean way to codify these
> dependencies at the moment because the CPU configs are selected by the
> individual machines that implement them, meaning that the dependencies
> would need to be added to all the machine configs (as 'select ...'
> overrides 'depends on ...'), which is outside the scope of this patch.
> Furthermore, one could argue that it is better for the user to get a big
> error when they are missing support for something, rather than the
> configs getting disabled silently, especially if they are critical to
> the machine.
>
> arch/mips/loongson2ef/Platform | 19 ++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
applied to mips-next.
Thomas.
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