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 -u binutils-2.18-orig/configure binutils-2.18/configure

 --- binutils-2.18-orig/configure	2007-08-06 16:29:40.000000000 -0400

 +++ binutils-2.18/configure	2007-09-27 22:41:51.000000000 -0400

 @@ -6125,10 +6125,10 @@

    *" texinfo "*) MAKEINFO='$$r/$(BUILD_SUBDIR)/texinfo/makeinfo/makeinfo' ;;

    *)

 -    # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or

 +    # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.6 or

      # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.

      if ${MAKEINFO} --version \

 -       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then

 +       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([6-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then

        :

      else

        MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"