Re: [RFC PATCH 21/23] powerpc64 is not necessarily BigEndian anymore! :)

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 03.04.2014 21:26, Ram Pai wrote:
>> > BOOTCFLAGS    := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
>> >                  -fno-strict-aliasing -Os -msoft-float -pipe \
>> >                  -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -fPIC -nostdinc \
>> >                  -isystem $(shell $(CROSS32CC) -print-file-name=include) \
>> >                  -mbig-endian
> 
> But that is different though.
How so? It's exactly the same thing: compilation of standalone BE using
LE compiler.
Andrey found a very good argument. And if distro can't compile Linux,
it's surely broken.
Also powerpc64le is relatively new platform as far as distrros are
concerned. I think if big distros show good example, other minor will
follow, resulting in more comfortable environment rather than locking
ourselves into uncomfortable environments.
> Yes it is possible to cross compile for
> any target on any arch.  But the key is that the environment needs to be
> setup to do so.  
> 
> We are talking about generating crosscompiled grub boot loader by an
> uninitiated/not-so-expert adminstrator.
It probably amounts to adding -mbig-endian to TARGET_* and using right
--target. Both of which can be automated in configure.ac rather than
maintaining yet another port.

> If the distribution makes it
> easy for that administrator to be able to cross-compile, than life is
> easy.  But that is not generally the case though. The administrator has
> to scramble around to find the right cross-compilation setup installed
> on her system to achieve the end result.

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