Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2015-10-02

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build

From: Boqun Feng <hidden>
Date: 2015-09-09 03:26:27
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Hi Michael,

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 12:26:44PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Mon, 2015-09-07 at 07:58 +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig
index 2f23133..808a904 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ config PPC_CELL_NATIVE
 
 config PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
 	bool "IBM Cell Blade"
-	depends on PPC64 && PPC_BOOK3S
+	depends on PPC64 && PPC_BOOK3S && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
We end up saying this five times.

We already have PPC_BOOK3S_64 which captures the first two conditions, should
we add a PPC_BOOK3S_64_BE which expresses it all?
I'm not sure whether this is worth.. IMO, we add a config option only if

1.	we can use this config somewhere in the code, for example,
	"#ifdef CONFIG_XXX"
or

2.	we want to offer a option for users to choose.

PPC_BOOK3S_64_BE satisfies neither condition. Further more,
CONFIG_PPC64, CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S and CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN all are used
in some #ifdefs in current code. As a newbie of kernel, I'm happy to get
some knowledge like: "If I'm hacking PS3, then #ifndef CONFIG_PPC64 is
guaranteed to be false, so I can just ignore the code guarded by them".
But if we add a PPC_BOOK3S_64_BE, it will take a little more effort to
see this.

Regards,
Boqun

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