diff -r a98f0615133f -r e175e3538310 samples/powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe/reported.by --- a/samples/powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe/reported.by Tue Oct 14 17:44:38 2008 +0000 +++ b/samples/powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe/reported.by Tue Oct 14 21:30:27 2008 +0000 @@ -1,2 +1,17 @@ reporter_name="Nate CASE" reporter_url="http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2008-10/msg00016.html" +reporter_comment="This is a sample config file for Freescale e500v2 processors (e.g., +MPC8548, MPC8572). It uses eglibc (for e500/SPE patches) and a recent +gcc (4.3.1, for e500v2 DPFP support) and will generate appropriate +dual-precision floating point instructions by default. + +Note: If building a Linux kernel with this toolchain, you will want to +make sure -mno-spe AND -mspe=no are passed to gcc to prevent SPE +ABI/instructions from getting into the kernel (which is currently +unsupported). At this time, the kernel build system only passes +-mno-spe by default (this should be fixed soon hopefully). + +A binutils snapshot is used to fix a bug present in 2.18 preventing +U-Boot from being compiled (CodeSourcery issue #2297: internal.h +(ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT): Adjust to cope with segments at the end of +memory)."