Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752764Ab3HUTwD (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:52:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.snhosting.dk ([87.238.248.203]:18263 "EHLO smtp.domainteam.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751836Ab3HUTwA (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:52:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:51:57 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Richard Weinberger , Linux-Arch , Michal Marek , Ralf Baechle , Paul Mundt , Jeff Dike , Guan Xuetao , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , linux-kbuild , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-m68k , Linux MIPS Mailing List , Linux-sh list , uml-devel Subject: Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH Message-ID: <20130821195157.GA18191@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <1377073172-3662-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 21 > > > 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 to generic code? Most (not all!) cross-toolchains > are called $ARCH-{unknown-,}linux{,-gnu}. > Exceptions are e.g. am33_2.0-linux and bfin-uclinux. Today you can specify CROSS_COMPILE in Kconfig. With this we should be able to remove these hacks. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/