samples/powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe/reported.by
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Tue Jan 03 22:57:25 2012 +0100 (2012-01-03)
changeset 2936 2dfea349d307
parent 2290 ba82eb173bd4
permissions -rw-r--r--
cc/gcc: build core compilers for canadian

Currently, we rely on an existing external cross-compiler targetting
the target, to build the C library.

This can pause quite a few problems if that compiler is different from
the one we are building, because it could introduce some ABI issues.

This patch removes this dependency, by building the core compilers
as we do for standard cross, and also by building the binutils and
gcc, for running on the build machine.

This means we no longer need to offer the cross-sompiler selection in
the menuconfig.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
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reporter_name="Anthony Foiani <anthony.foiani@gmail.com>"
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reporter_url="http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2010-09/msg00100.html"
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reporter_comment="This is a sample config file for Freescale e500v2 processors (e.g., MPC8548,
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MPC8572). It uses eglibc (for e500/SPE patches) and a recent gcc (4.6.0,
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for e500v2 DPFP support) and will generate appropriate dual-precision
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floating point instructions by default.
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Note: If building a Linux kernel with this toolchain, you will want to make
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sure -mno-spe AND -mspe=no are passed to gcc to prevent SPE ABI/instructions
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from getting into the kernel (which is currently unsupported). At this time,
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the kernel build system properly passes those two options, but older kernels
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were only passing -mno-spe by default."