Subject: Re: 440 ebony patch seems to have broken 85xx build on powerpc.git

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:01:28 +0200

>> No, those options _do_ work on 440, but the -mbooke
>> assembler flag disallows isel (since it is an optional
>> insn).
>
> But not on 440GP, which is what Ebony is.

I meant it is an optional insn in the arch.

-mcpu=440 doesn't enable isel, anyway; only -mcpu=e500
does in any FSF GCC release as far as I can see.

Segher