[PATCH 0/3] Split off powerpcspe from rs6000 port

[Joel Sherrill]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 16/05/17 15:45, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Sebastian Huber <
>> sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedd
>> ed-brains.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     FYI
>>
>>     I guess for RTEMS we should use "powerpcspe-rtems*-*". Is it
>>     possible to use the RTEMS "powerpc" directories with such a
>>     target? We had an "arm-rtemseabi*" maybe due to some
>>     configure/automake limitations. So, maybe "powerpc-rtemsspe*"?
>>
>>
>> I personally think the GCC discussions which put SPE as part of the OS
>> name are
>> horribly incorrect. SPE is an architecture variant and the pattern for
>> configure
>> triples is very well defined. The pattern is
>> ARCHITECTURE-VENDOR-OS[version]
>>
>> I would prefer powerpcspe-rtemsVERSION.
>>
>> On the sharing the code issue, how much gets shared? How do you envision
>> this impacting the RTEMS tree? Split the PowerPC port like GCC? Or just
>> somehow magically build the same powerpc directories two different ways?
>>
>
> The reason for this split in GCC is that IBM is no longer willing to
> maintain the stuff from Freescale/NXP/Qualcomm. There is no reason to do
> this split in RTEMS.


I didn't either except for the purity of matching directories to tool
architectures.

So it will be configure magic to subset the BSPs I suppose.

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