Re: [PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
> > For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the  
> > SPE
> > instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
> > 6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a.
>
> The unknown reason was that my PPC64 failed to compile without  
> it ;-) It was unknown because I forgot to mention that in the change  
> log (my bad).
>
> On Monday, I'll apply this patch and make sure that my PPC64 still  
> compiles.
>
> -- Steve

Thanks, if you can Ack the patch today if it works for you that would  
be great.

- k

> > We are removing it because:
> >
> > 1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
> > 2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
> > 3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
> > 4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/Makefile |    4 +---
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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