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SubjectRe: [PATCH] powerpc: Drop -me200 addition to build flags
On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 23:09 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Currently a build with CONFIG_E200=y will fail with:
>
> Error: invalid switch -me200
> Error: unrecognized option -me200
>
> Upstream binutils has never supported an -me200 option. Presumably it
> was supported at some point by either a fork or Freescale internal
> binutils.
>
> We can't support code that we can't even build test, so drop the
> addition of -me200 to the build flags, so we can at least build with
> CONFIG_E200=y.
>
> Reported-by: Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> ---
>
> More discussion:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202011131146.g8dPLQDD-lkp@intel.com
> ---
> arch/powerpc/Makefile | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>

I'd go further and remove E200 code entirely, unless someone with the hardware
can claim that it actually works. There doesn't appear to be any actual
platform support for an e200-based system. It seems to be a long-abandoned
work in progress.

-Scott


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