Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Warne <> | Subject | Re: CPU type .config <-> i386/Makefile question[s] | Date | Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:43:56 +0100 |
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On Sunday 05 June 2005 18:43, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> the specific reason is that kernel 2.4 is in a maintainance mode and > such changes are not considered being worth the risk of breaking > anything anywhere with any of the supported gcc versions. > > In kernel 2.6, this is already handled the way you expect it. > > > Also I notice that if I changed the top level Makefile to include my > > specific CPU, then the i386/Makefile adds += -march=i686 to the build > > lines AFTER CFLAGS~ thus the second one will take precedence (I guess) > > anyway, and the -march CFLAG changes are basically over-ridden? > > Users are not expected to manually set any CFLAGS. > > It might work in your case, but unless you _really_ know what you are > doing you always risk some breakage.
I see! Thanks for info. I can do my own patch to play with :-)
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