Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2021-12-14

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] MIPS: SGI-IP22: Remove unnecessary check of GCC option

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-12-14 01:31:28
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 6:58 PM Tiezhu Yang [off-list ref] wrote:
According to the document "Minimal requirements to compile the Kernel [1],

[1] is the kernel document, so you do not need to refer to the URL.

You can say:

 According to Documentation/process/changes.rst, ...



https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest is the moving target.
If you get access to this URL some years later, the min GCC
version may not be 5.1



Other than the nit,

Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>



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the minimal version of GCC is 5.1, -mr10k-cache-barrier=store is supported
with GCC 5.1 [2], so just remove the unnecessary check to fix the build
error [3]:

  arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform:28: *** gcc doesn't support needed option -mr10k-cache-barrier=store.  Stop.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/changes.html
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.1.0/gcc/MIPS-Options.html
[3] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1543

Reported-by: Ryutaroh Matsumoto <redacted>
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
---
 arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform
index 62fa30b..a4c46e3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform
@@ -23,10 +23,5 @@ endif
 # be 16kb aligned or the handling of the current variable will break.
 # Simplified: what IP22 does at 128MB+ in ksegN, IP28 does at 512MB+ in xkphys
 #
-ifdef CONFIG_SGI_IP28
-  ifeq ($(call cc-option-yn,-march=r10000 -mr10k-cache-barrier=store), n)
-      $(error gcc doesn't support needed option -mr10k-cache-barrier=store)
-  endif
-endif
 cflags-$(CONFIG_SGI_IP28)      += -mr10k-cache-barrier=store -I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip28
 load-$(CONFIG_SGI_IP28)                += 0xa800000020004000
--
2.1.0

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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