Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:11:02 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: ppc32 2.6.x builds for ppc m8xx arch. |
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:39:24PM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Greetings list. > > I'm curious about something which looks like an error in the mpc8xx > build of the latest 2.6.11-rc1 kernel. [snip] > Looking at the difference between the 2.4 and the 2.6 build arguments. [snip] > I notice that for a start -m32 has appeared out of nowhere and
-m32 is what allows you to use a ppc32/64 bi-arch toolchain and build a 32bit kernel. It is harmless on just ppc32 compilers.
> furthermore -mcpu=860 has gone away.
Correct. -mcpu860 was a 'do nothing' flag. It didn't actually tell the compiler anything, it just didn't cause an error. It was removed when we had to add more really used flags.
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