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

From: Stef Simoens <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 03:30:47 +0200

Olaf Hering wrote:

>  On Tue, Jun 15, Tom Rini wrote:
>
>
>>And yes, passing -many does work on all older supported versions of
>>binutils.  So perhaps we should just add -Wa,-many to our cflags and be
>>done with it now (and for future fixes of this sort).
>
>
> gcc 3.2 passes only -mppc, so all altive instructions will fail to
> compile without either -many or -maltivec

Are there altivec instructions when CONFIG_ALTIVEC is not set?

> diff -purNX /suse/olh/kernel/kernel_exclude.txt linux-2.6.7-bk16.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile linux-2.6.7-bk16/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile
> --- linux-2.6.7-bk16.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile	2004-07-03 22:33:35.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.7-bk16/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile	2004-07-03 22:51:16.802332774 +0200
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ endif
>  ifdef CONFIG_4xx
>  EXTRA_AFLAGS		:= -Wa,-m405
>  endif
> +ifdef CONFIG_6xx
> +EXTRA_AFLAGS		:= -Wa,-maltivec
> +endif
>  ifdef CONFIG_E500
>  EXTRA_AFLAGS		:= -Wa,-me500
>  endif

So, shouldn't this be "ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC" ?

Stef

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