On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:28:41PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
Hello,
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Herring [mailto:robh@kernel.org] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 12:04 AM To: Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org; Linux Kernel Mailing List linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARC: Get rid of toolchain check
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:24 PM Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com wrote:
This check is very naive: we simply test if GCC invoked without "-mcpu=XXX" has ARC700 define set. In that case we think that GCC was built with "--with-cpu=arc700" and has libgcc built for ARC700.
Otherwise if ARC700 is not defined we think that everythng was built for ARCv2.
But in reality our life is much more interesting.
Regardless of GCC configuration (i.e. what we pass in "--with-cpu" it may generate code for any ARC core).
libgcc might be built with explicitly specified "--mcpu=YYY"
That's exactly what happens in case of multilibbed toolchains:
- GCC is configured with default settings
- All the libs built for many different CPU flavors
I.e. that check gets in the way of usage of multilibbed toolchains. And even non-multilibbed toolchains are affected. OpenEmbedded also builds GCC without "--with-cpu" because each and every target component later is compiled with explicitly set "-mcpu=ZZZ".
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin abrodkin@synopsys.com
arch/arc/Makefile | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
+1 for this. Removing it also helps with my work to be able to build all the .dts files with only a host compiler. That also needs the hunk setting CROSS_COMPILE removed and not having a built-in dtb by default, but this is a step in the right direction.
Acked-by: Rob Herring robh@kernel.org
May we get this one back-ported to stable trees?
Upstream commit in Linus' tree is 615f64458ad8 ("ARC: build: Get rid of toolchain check").
This fixes kernel configuration for ARC in case of missing ARC cross-tools in current PATH.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h