Messages in this thread | | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:49:46 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: wan: wanxl: use $(CC68K) instead of $(AS68K) for rebuilding firmware |
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:47 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > Hi Yamada-san, > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 5:17 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote: > > As far as I understood from the Kconfig help text, this build rule is > > used to rebuild the driver firmware, which runs on the QUICC, m68k-based > > Motorola 68360. > > > > The firmware source, wanxlfw.S, is currently compiled by the combo of > > $(CPP) and $(AS68K). This is not what we usually do for compiling *.S > > files. In fact, this is the only user of $(AS) in the kernel build. > > > > Moreover, $(CPP) is not likely to be a m68k tool because wanxl.c is a > > PCI driver, but CONFIG_M68K does not select CONFIG_HAVE_PCI. > > Instead of combining $(CPP) and (AS) from different tool sets, using > > single $(CC68K) seems simpler, and saner. > > > > After this commit, the firmware rebuild will require cc68k instead of > > as68k. I do not know how many people care about this, though. > > > > I do not have cc68k/ld68k in hand, but I was able to build it by using > > the kernel.org m68k toolchain. [1] > > Would this work with a "standard" m68k-linux-gnu-gcc toolchain, like > provided by Debian/Ubuntu, too? >
Yes, I did 'sudo apt install gcc-8-m68k-linux-gnu' It successfully compiled this firmware.
In my understanding, the difference is that the kernel.org ones lack libc, so cannot link userspace programs.
They do not make much difference for this case.
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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