The little-endian powerpc64le compilers provided by Ubuntu and Fedora are able to compile big endian kernel and big endian nolibc-test [1]. These default CROSS_COMPILE settings allow to test target architectures with: $ cd /path/to/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/ $ for arch in ppc ppc64 ppc64le; do \ make run-user XARCH=$arch | grep "status: "; \ done If want to use another cross compiler, please simply pass CROSS_COMPILE or CC as before. For example, it is able to build 64-bit nolibc-test with the big endian powerpc64-linux-gcc crosstool from [2]: $ wget -c https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/13.1.0/x86_64-gcc-13.1.0-nolibc-powerpc64-linux.tar.xz $ tar xvf x86_64-gcc-13.1.0-nolibc-powerpc64-linux.tar.xz $ export PATH=$PWD/gcc-13.1.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/:$PATH $ export CROSS_COMPILE_ppc=powerpc64-linux- $ export CROSS_COMPILE_ppc64=powerpc64-linux- $ export CROSS_COMPILE_ppc64le=powerpc64-linux- $ for arch in ppc ppc64 ppc64le; do \ make run-user XARCH=$arch | grep "status: "; \ done Or specify CC directly with full path: $ export CC=$PWD/gcc-13.1.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-gcc $ for arch in ppc ppc64 ppc64le; do \ make run-user XARCH=$arch | grep "status: "; \ done [1]: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot [2]: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile index 6e34d364a177..16cc33db54e3 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ IMAGE = $(IMAGE_$(XARCH)) IMAGE_NAME = $(notdir $(IMAGE)) # CROSS_COMPILE: cross toolchain prefix by architecture +CROSS_COMPILE_ppc ?= powerpc-linux-gnu- +CROSS_COMPILE_ppc64 ?= powerpc64le-linux-gnu- +CROSS_COMPILE_ppc64le ?= powerpc64le-linux-gnu- CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE_$(XARCH)) # make sure CC is prefixed with CROSS_COMPILE -- 2.25.1