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From: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
To: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
		Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc-eabi board support for Xilinx
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081104215530.GE595@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081104213453.GA30736@hungry-tiger.westford.ibm.com>

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:34:53PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:58:00AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> > The attached patch does two things:  First, it creates a
> > --with-board=<board> option which will set the default
> > target board for a build with --target=powerpc-*-eabi.  The
> > user can still override this with a -m<board> option.  Second,
> > it creates -mxilinx, which specifies target options for
> > using various Xilinx PowerPC development boards.
> 
> I thought most of the ppc board packages had moved away from adding -m<option>,
> and instead were using specs files or shell script wrappers to add the
> particular libraries that were used.  This way they could use an off the shelf
> compiler and not have to add libraries.  I must admit to not really knowing
> that part of the market these days.

For what it's worth, we use linker scripts (specified by the user, but
by-and-large provided by us; the user is welcome to create
board-specific linker scripts, of course) to handle most of the bits
that the -m<board> options currently handle.  (Libraries and linker
scripts bits seem to be all that -m<board> is used for anyway, and
linker scripts can fill in for both.)

-Nathan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-22 19:38 Michael Eager
2008-11-04 21:35 ` Michael Meissner
2008-11-04 21:56   ` Nathan Froyd [this message]
2008-11-05 17:13     ` Michael Eager

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