samples/powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe/reported.by
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Thu Aug 25 18:30:18 2011 +0200 (2011-08-25)
changeset 2645 9cb3554bebeb
parent 2290 ba82eb173bd4
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configure: check for lzma

Some packages are available as LZMA tarballs. LZMA is a relatively recent
compression algorithm; it's slightly better than bzip2, but offers much
faster decompression. LZMA is now deprecated in favor of XZ, but some
packages switched to LZMA when XZ was not yet available, or still in its
infancy. Latest XZ (which totaly obsoletes LZMA) offers a backward LZMA-
compatible utility, so we can check for 'lzma' nonetheless.

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."