Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread David Daney
On 08/22/2013 01:41 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. >> >> > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != >> SUBARC

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 03:55:20 PM, David Daney wrote: > On 08/22/2013 01:41 PM, Rob Landley wrote: >> On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg >>> wrote: >>> >> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. >>> >> > These architectu

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg > wrote: > >> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. > >> > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != > SUBARCH. > >> > Do really need that behavior? > >

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. >> > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != SUBARCH. >> > Do really need that behavior? >> >> This does remove functionality. >> It allows to build a kernel usi

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. > > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != SUBARCH. > > Do really need that behavior? > > This does remove functionality. > It allows to build a kernel using e.g. "make ARCH=m68k". > > Perhaps this can be moved

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/21/2013 07:07:33 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Weinberger > wrote: > > This series is an attempt to remove the SUBARCH make parameter. > > It as introduced at the times of Linux 2.5 for UML to tell the UML > > build system what the real architect

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Richard Weinberger wrote: > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != SUBARCH. > Do really need that behavior? Not precisely that, but it’s very common in m68k land to just cross-build kernels with

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Weinberger
Am 21.08.2013 14:07, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> This series is an attempt to remove the SUBARCH make parameter. >> It as introduced at the times of Linux 2.5 for UML to tell the UML >> build system what the real architecture is. >>

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
If ARCH doesn't match uname for some definition of match? Thorsten Glaser wrote: >On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. >> These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != >SUBARCH. >> Do really need that behavior

Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > This series is an attempt to remove the SUBARCH make parameter. > It as introduced at the times of Linux 2.5 for UML to tell the UML > build system what the real architecture is. > > But we actually don't need SUBARCH, we can store this