Messages in this thread | | | From | Scott Wood <> | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:26:40 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Drop -me200 addition to build flags |
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On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 23:09 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Currently a build with CONFIG_E200=y will fail with: > > Error: invalid switch -me200 > Error: unrecognized option -me200 > > Upstream binutils has never supported an -me200 option. Presumably it > was supported at some point by either a fork or Freescale internal > binutils. > > We can't support code that we can't even build test, so drop the > addition of -me200 to the build flags, so we can at least build with > CONFIG_E200=y. > > Reported-by: Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> > --- > > More discussion: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202011131146.g8dPLQDD-lkp@intel.com > --- > arch/powerpc/Makefile | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
Acked-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
I'd go further and remove E200 code entirely, unless someone with the hardware can claim that it actually works. There doesn't appear to be any actual platform support for an e200-based system. It seems to be a long-abandoned work in progress.
-Scott
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