Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Aug 21 2013 - 15:52:07 EST


>
> > 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
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