[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/1] toolchain/toolchain-buildroot: PPC64(LE) support in musl requires ALTIVEC

Vincent Fazio vfazio at xes-inc.com
Tue Feb 4 21:35:48 UTC 2020


musl currently assumes all PPC64(LE) CPUs support ALTIVEC instructions.

However, there are exceptions (such as the e5500) for which musl builds
ultimately generate illegal instructions for the targets.

Disable musl if the PPC64(LE) CPU does not support ALTIVEC instructions.

This patch addresses the issues seen here:
  https://gitlab.com/kubu93/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/418092743
  https://gitlab.com/kubu93/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/418092744

musl mailing list thread:
  https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2020/02/03/10

Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio at xes-inc.com>
---

Changes v3 -> v4:
  - document musl mailing list thread (suggested by Romain)

Changes v2 -> v3:
  - change to 'depends on' semantics (suggested by Romain)

Changes v1 -> v2:
  - clarify commit message (suggested by Matthew)
  - add job logs (suggested by Romain)

Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio at xes-inc.com>
---
 toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in
index a980f766ac..8c33b2b4dd 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_MUSL
 		   BR2_mips64el    || BR2_or1k  || BR2_powerpc || BR2_powerpc64 || \
 		   BR2_powerpc64le || BR2_RISCV_64 || BR2_sh   || BR2_x86_64
 	depends on !BR2_powerpc_SPE # not supported, build breaks
+	depends on !(BR2_powerpc64 || BR2_powerpc64le) || BR2_POWERPC_CPU_HAS_ALTIVEC
 	# sh2 nommu is supported by musl, but we don't have support
 	# for it in Buildroot.
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
-- 
2.25.0




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