Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix missing option in binutils version check

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:49:45 +0200

On Mon, Jul 12, Tom Rini wrote:

> +cflags-$(CONFIG_6xx)		+= -Wa,-maltivec

That breaks gas 2.14 with gcc 3.4 or gcc 3.5, it passes -mppc, -many to
as and leads to this error:

 /home/olaf/toolchain/inst/binutils-2.14-gcc-3.4.1/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../../powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/as -mppc -many -V -Qy -maltivec -o arch/ppc/kernel/.tmp_time.o time.s
GNU assembler version 2.14 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) using BFD version 2.14 20030612
time.s: Assembler messages:
time.s:145: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftb'
time.s:341: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftb'
time.s:462: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftb'
time.s:644: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftb'
time.s:755: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftb'
time.s:964: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftbu'
time.s:965: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftb'
time.s:966: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mftbu'

-many resets some as flags.
changing this to -Wa,-mppc,-maltivec should help, no idea if it breaks
other combinations.

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