[PATCH] mips: fix mipsel toolchains support to compile BIG_ENDIAN board

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 06:40:36AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/Makefile |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
> index 86b4b80..72434d4 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
> @@ -1,20 +1,54 @@
> +#
> +# Select the object file format to substitute into the linker script.
> +#
> +ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> +32bit-tool-archpref	= mipsel
> +64bit-tool-archpref	= mips64el
> +32bit-bfd		= elf32-tradlittlemips
> +64bit-bfd		= elf64-tradlittlemips
> +32bit-emul		= elf32ltsmip
> +64bit-emul		= elf64ltsmip
> +else
> +32bit-tool-archpref	= mips
> +64bit-tool-archpref	= mips64
> +32bit-bfd		= elf32-tradbigmips
> +64bit-bfd		= elf64-tradbigmips
> +32bit-emul		= elf32btsmip
> +64bit-emul		= elf64btsmip
> +endif

I'm not convinced that introducing magic for finding a cross toolchain
is a good idea. The corresponding kernel code goes back to the pre
2.6.12 era and I think it wouldn't find its way mainline nowadays.

Sascha


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