Sample config for e500v2 toolchain

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 17:05:31 Nate Case wrote:
> This is a sample config file for Freescale e500v2 processors (e.g.,
> MPC8548, MPC8572). It uses eglibc (for e500/SPE patches) and a recent
> gcc (4.3.1, for e500v2 DPFP support) and will generate appropriate
> dual-precision floating point instructions by default.
>
> Note: If building a Linux kernel with this toolchain, you will want to
> make sure -mno-spe AND -mspe=no are passed to gcc to prevent SPE
> ABI/instructions from getting into the kernel (which is currently
> unsupported). At this time, the kernel build system only passes
> -mno-spe by default (this should be fixed soon hopefully).
>
> A binutils snapshot is used to fix a bug present in 2.18 preventing
> U-Boot from being compiled (CodeSourcery issue #2297: internal.h
> (ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT): Adjust to cope with segments at the end of
> memory).

Obsoletes the powerpc-unknown-linux-gnuspe sample, so remove it.

/trunk/samples/powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe/crosstool.config | 307 307 0 0 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 307 insertions(+)

diff -dur binutils-2.17.old/bfd/opncls.c binutils-2.17/bfd/opncls.c

--- binutils-2.17.old/bfd/opncls.c	2006-03-16 13:20:16.000000000 +0100

+++ binutils-2.17/bfd/opncls.c	2007-05-01 18:26:11.000000000 +0200

@@ -158,6 +158,13 @@

 {

   bfd *nbfd;

   const bfd_target *target_vec;

+  struct stat s;

+

+  if (stat (filename, &s) == 0)

+    if (S_ISDIR(s.st_mode)) {

+      bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_not_recognized);

+      return NULL;

+    }

   nbfd = _bfd_new_bfd ();

   if (nbfd == NULL)