Re: [PATCH] powerpc: allow cross-compilation of ppc64 kernel

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 03:09:40PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:

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Why is GCC building ppc64 object files but telling the linker --oformat elf32-
powerpcle?  Are different options somehow being passed to GCC in one case 
versus the other?

This was changed for GCC 6 in <http://gcc.gnu.org/r227397>, could one of
you check if that fixes this problem?  If so we'll need to backport it.

Actually it already has been backported, r228089.


Segher