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[01/18] powerpc: Add ability to build little endian kernels

Message ID 1285916771-18033-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Ian Munsie Oct. 1, 2010, 7:05 a.m. UTC 
From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>

This patch allows the kbuild system to successfully compile a kernel for
the little endian PowerPC architecture.

To build such a kernel a supported platform must be used and
CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN must be set. CROSS_COMPILE must be set to a
suitable toolchain prefix (compiled for the powerpcle-elf target, or
patched to allow the powerpcle-linux target).

Since the system will always start in big endian mode, the zImage
wrapper must still be compiled with a big endian toolchain, which can be
specified via CROSS32_COMPILE.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/Makefile                   |   22 +++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile              |    3 ++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S |    4 ++++
 arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype  |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Kumar Gala Oct. 1, 2010, 9:18 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Ian Munsie wrote:

> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> index d361f81..074ff12 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> @@ -329,3 +329,19 @@ config CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY
> 	bool
> 
> endmenu
> +
> +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> +	bool
> +
> +config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> +	bool "Build little endian kernel"
> +	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN && EXPERIMENTAL
> +	default n
> +	help
> +	  This option selects whether a big endian or little endian kernel will
> +	  be built.
> +
> +	  Note that if building a little endian kernel, CROSS_COMPILE must
> +	  point to a toolchain capable of targetting little endian powerpc,
> +	  while the toolchain specified by CROSS32_COMPILE must be capable of
> +	  targetting *BIG* endian PowerPC.
> -- 
> 1.7.1

Shouldn't we have something that limits to the sub-arch'es that actually support it?  I doubt I'm ever going to make FSL-Book-e support LE.

- k
Josh Boyer Oct. 1, 2010, 11:28 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Ian Munsie wrote:
>
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
>> index d361f81..074ff12 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
>> @@ -329,3 +329,19 @@ config CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY
>>       bool
>>
>> endmenu
>> +
>> +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>> +     bool
>> +
>> +config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>> +     bool "Build little endian kernel"
>> +     depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN && EXPERIMENTAL
>> +     default n
>> +     help
>> +       This option selects whether a big endian or little endian kernel will
>> +       be built.
>> +
>> +       Note that if building a little endian kernel, CROSS_COMPILE must
>> +       point to a toolchain capable of targetting little endian powerpc,
>> +       while the toolchain specified by CROSS32_COMPILE must be capable of
>> +       targetting *BIG* endian PowerPC.
>> --
>> 1.7.1
>
> Shouldn't we have something that limits to the sub-arch'es that actually support it?  I doubt I'm ever going to make FSL-Book-e support LE.

Yes, it should.

josh
Josh Boyer Oct. 1, 2010, 11:40 a.m. UTC | #3 
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> index d361f81..074ff12 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> @@ -329,3 +329,19 @@ config CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY
>        bool
>
>  endmenu
> +
> +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> +       bool
> +
> +config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> +       bool "Build little endian kernel"
> +       depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN && EXPERIMENTAL
> +       default n
> +       help
> +         This option selects whether a big endian or little endian kernel will
> +         be built.
> +
> +         Note that if building a little endian kernel, CROSS_COMPILE must
> +         point to a toolchain capable of targetting little endian powerpc,
> +         while the toolchain specified by CROSS32_COMPILE must be capable of
> +         targetting *BIG* endian PowerPC.

Have you tested this support with a userspace containing floating
point instructions?  I wonder if CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is going to
need work at all, and if the boards with an actual FPU (440EP, 440EPx,
460EX, etc) would have issues.

josh
Benjamin Herrenschmidt Oct. 1, 2010, 12:09 p.m. UTC | #4 
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 07:28 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Shouldn't we have something that limits to the sub-arch'es that
> actually support it?  I doubt I'm ever going to make FSL-Book-e
> support LE.
> 
> Yes, it should. 

Sure, that's only WIP patches :-)

Tho FSL BookE would be relatively easy...

Cheers,
Ben.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt Oct. 1, 2010, 12:22 p.m. UTC | #5 
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 07:40 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Have you tested this support with a userspace containing floating
> point instructions?  I wonder if CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is going to
> need work at all, and if the boards with an actual FPU (440EP, 440EPx,
> 460EX, etc) would have issues. 

That's one of the things on the TODO list. We've tested that on a 44x
with no FPU so far and made sure we built without math emu.

Cheers,
Ben.
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index b7212b6..3eed685 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -56,11 +56,27 @@  endif
 
 UTS_MACHINE := $(OLDARCH)
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN),y)
+override CC	+= -mlittle-endian
+override AS	+= -mlittle-endian
+override LD	+= -EL
+LDEMULATION	:= lppc
+GNUTARGET	:= powerpcle
+MULTIPLEWORD	:= -mno-multiple
+else
+override CC	+= -mbig-endian
+override AS	+= -mbig-endian
+override LD	+= -EB
+LDEMULATION	:= ppc
+GNUTARGET	:= powerpc
+MULTIPLEWORD	:= -mmultiple
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(HAS_BIARCH),y)
 override AS	+= -a$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE)
-override LD	+= -m elf$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE)ppc
+override LD	+= -m elf$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE)$(LDEMULATION)
 override CC	+= -m$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE)
-override AR	:= GNUTARGET=elf$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE)-powerpc $(AR)
+override AR	:= GNUTARGET=elf$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE)-$(GNUTARGET) $(AR)
 endif
 
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux-yy := -Bstatic
@@ -68,7 +84,7 @@  LDFLAGS_vmlinux-$(CONFIG_PPC64)$(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) := -pie
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux	:= $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux-yy)
 
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	:= -mminimal-toc -mtraceback=none  -mcall-aixdesc
-CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC32)	:= -ffixed-r2 -mmultiple
+CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC32)	:= -ffixed-r2 $(MULTIPLEWORD)
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+= -Iarch/$(ARCH)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -Iarch/$(ARCH)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -msoft-float -pipe -Iarch/$(ARCH) $(CFLAGS-y)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
index fae8192..39f10a4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@  all: $(obj)/zImage
 BOOTCFLAGS    := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
 		 -fno-strict-aliasing -Os -msoft-float -pipe \
 		 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -fPIC -nostdinc \
-		 -isystem $(shell $(CROSS32CC) -print-file-name=include)
+		 -isystem $(shell $(CROSS32CC) -print-file-name=include) \
+		 -mbig-endian
 BOOTAFLAGS	:= -D__ASSEMBLY__ $(BOOTCFLAGS) -traditional -nostdinc
 
 ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S
index 0546bcd..f4c6676 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ 
  */
 #include <asm/vdso.h>
 
+#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
+OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-powerpcle", "elf32-powerpcle", "elf32-powerpcle")
+#else
 OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-powerpc", "elf32-powerpc", "elf32-powerpc")
+#endif
 OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc:common)
 ENTRY(_start)
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index d361f81..074ff12 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -329,3 +329,19 @@  config CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY
 	bool
 
 endmenu
+
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+	bool
+
+config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+	bool "Build little endian kernel"
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN && EXPERIMENTAL
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option selects whether a big endian or little endian kernel will
+	  be built.
+
+	  Note that if building a little endian kernel, CROSS_COMPILE must
+	  point to a toolchain capable of targetting little endian powerpc,
+	  while the toolchain specified by CROSS32_COMPILE must be capable of
+	  targetting *BIG* endian PowerPC.