> The problem is not with the kernel compile itself, but with the 2.12 > "dssall" binutils test. Basically, recent binutils treats e500 as > effectively a separate architecture that happens to share *most* of > the opcodes with regular PowerPC. Any opcode which is not understood > by the e500 chip is either convert to an equivalent opcode which is > understood (IE: lwsync => sync), or failed with an error. This means > that the kernel compile aborts early telling me to upgrade to a newer > version of binutils. $ echo dssall | powerpc-linux-as -many -me500 $ powerpc-linux-objdump -d a.out | grep 0: 0: 7e 00 06 6c dssall $ powerpc-linux-as --version | head -1 GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.21.51.20110309 What version of binutils does not work? (I also checked with -me500x2, -me500mc, -mspe, and various combinations. lwsync is indeed converted to a regular sync (well, "msync") for e500 and e500x2). Segher -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
