Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] powerpc: Remove cpu-as-y completely
From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-16 15:25:26
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From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-16 15:25:26
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Le 20/02/2023 à 07:00, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] writes:quoted
cpu-as-y is there to force assembler building options. But there is no need for that. Gcc is passed the necessary options and it automatically pass the appropriate option to GAS. GCC is given -maltivec when relevant, so no need for -Wa,-maltivec in addition And -Wa,-many is wrong as it will hide innapropriate instructions. Better to detect them and handle them on a case by case basis. -Wa,-many was added by commit 960e30029863 ("powerpc/Makefile: Fix PPC_BOOK3S_64 ASFLAGS") in order to fix an issue with clang and the passed -Wa,-mpower4 option. But we have now removed it expecting the compiler to automatically pass the proper options and instructions based on -mcpu=power4I wanted to apply this one, but it caused a lot of breakage for big endian Book3S-64 builds - where we build for power4 but have lots of code that uses >= power5 instructions. I'll try and get those all fixed and pick this up for the next merge window.
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