Hi Yamada-san,
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 5:17 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> 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?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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