[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] [arm64 uboot] Resolved compilation issue for arm64 uboot

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Oct 12 17:39:42 UTC 2015


Dear Matt Weber,

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:49:14 -0500, Matt Weber wrote:

> This patch has been added to resolve the compilation issue
> of arm64 uboot.
> 
> For aarch64 architecture, kernel uses arm64 terminology and thus from
> top-level Makefile KERNEL_ARCH is modified to arm64 for aarch64 which
> then passed to uboot compilation. But, it causes compilation issue
> while including architecture specific Makefile under
> arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile as uboot uses top-level system architecture as
> arm only.

I'm not a native english speaker, but the wording of this sentence
doesn't seem quite right.

The title of the commit should be:

	uboot: <something>

> +# For aarch64 architecture, kernel uses arm64 terminology and thus from
> +# # top-level Makefile KERNEL_ARCH is modified to arm64 for aarch64 which
> +# # then passed to uboot compilation. But, it causes compilation issue
> +# # while including architecture specific Makefile under arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
> +# # as uboot uses top-level system architecture as arm only.

Double hashes a the beginning of each line -> not good.

Care to fix that up (especially rewording the commit log and comment) ?

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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