Re: 2.6.8 link failure for powerpc-970?

[Dan Kegel]

Anton Blanchard wrote:
>  
>
> > Sure.  For ppc64, beyond allnoconfig, I had to enable
> > CONFIG_SYSVIPC
> > CONFIG_SYSCTL
> > CONFIG_NET
> > ... um, but that didn't fix everything.  Now it fails with
>
>
> OK, I guess we need some better wrapping of compat code.

Yeah, probably for several of the 64 bit arches.  Sounds like
a nice little kernel-janitor project.

> > Um, why is it using the host's gcc?  I ran make with
> > make V=1 ARCH=ppc64 
> > CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/crosstool/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.2-glibc-2.3.3/bin/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-
> > so it really should know better, shouldn't it?
>
>
> Check out arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile, in particular CROSS32_COMPILE. The
> boot wrapper is a 32bit binary. 
>
> Now that the toolchain is biarch capable we could get rid of that and
> use gcc -m32 instead. But for the moment specify a CROSS32_COMPILE ant
> things should link.

Aha!  Got it.  Thanks!
- Dan

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