linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] powerpc/32: Do not allow selection of e5500 or e6500 CPUs on PPC32

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Message-ID: <ec2a8a52-73cc-edb5-1343-ec879f2355e6@csgroup.eu>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:42:07 +0000
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] powerpc/32: Do not allow selection of e5500 or
 e6500 CPUs on PPC32



Le 11/07/2022 à 18:39, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 04:19:29PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Commit 0e00a8c9fd92 ("powerpc: Allow CPU selection also on PPC32")
>> enlarged the CPU selection logic to PPC32 by removing depend to
>> PPC64, and failed to restrict that depend to E5500_CPU and E6500_CPU.
>> Fortunately that got unnoticed because -mcpu=8540 will override the
>> -mcpu=e500mc64 or -mpcu=e6500 as they are ealier, but that's
>> fragile and may no be right in the future.
> 
> A later -mcpu= always overrides an earlier one.  This is the same as
> with all other GCC option flags, and will not change in the future.
> 


By "future" I meant after patch 2.

At the time being, if you select PPC32 and MPC_85xx and E6500_CPU, you 
get -mcpu=e6500 -mcpu=8540.

After patch 2, if you select PPC32 and MPC_85xx and E6500_CPU, you get 
-mcpu=e6500

Christophe