Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH Risu v2 7/9] Add PPC64 in risu build system

[joserz@linux.vnet.ibm.com]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:41:41PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 November 2016 at 17:15, Jose Ricardo Ziviani
> <joserz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Recognizes PPC64 as a valid architecture and setup the environment
> > variables to compile code for that.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <joserz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  configure | 8 +++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/configure b/configure
> > index 748b48a..f81bdb5 100755
> > --- a/configure
> > +++ b/configure
> > @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ guess_arch() {
> >          ARCH="arm"
> >      elif check_define __aarch64__ ; then
> >          ARCH="aarch64"
> > +    elif check_define __powerpc64__ ; then
> > +        if check_define __BIG_ENDIAN__; then
> > +            ARCH="ppc64"
> > +        else
> > +            ARCH="ppc64le"
> > +        fi
> 
> Does the BE ppc64 risu build work for you? I tried
> installing the cross-compiler, but the build fails
> because there's no risu_ppc64.c. (ppc64le works fine.)
> If we don't support the big-endian variant yet maybe
> we should drop it from the configure file.

I want it to work to but I focused the efforts on LE only, never tested
at all. I have a small patchset to send to you. I'll make an effort to fix BE as well,
it's worth it.

Thanks Peter!

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>