Subject: Re: A couple of suggestions
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 01/06/2004 09:28:26
At 08:26 PM 1/5/2004, Allen Briggs wrote:
>I've been working on moving Sandpoint and another Sandpoint-like
>port to evbppc. In doing so, I've found that there are a few
>things I'd like to do to help support this.
<shock>!
>I'd like to add a few more _IMPL options. Right now, we have
> PPC_INTR_IMPL
>and PPC_PCI_MACHDEP_IMPL
>
>I'd like to add
> PPC_ISA_MACHDEP_IMPL
>and PPC_OPENPIC_MACHDEP_IMPL
>
>with their associated changes. In this case, I'd like to make
>some of these files, well, machdep in nature and add, for example:
>
>options PPC_PCI_MACHDEP_IMPL="<arch/evbppc/sandpoint/pci_machdep.h>"
>
>This works, except that arch/powerpc/conf/Makefile.powerpc does
>CPPFLAGS+=-D${MACHINE}
or CPPFLAGS+=-D__${MACHINE}__
>So when we trying to
>#include PPC_PCI_MACHDEP_IMPL
>it becomes
>#include <arch/1/sandpoint/pci_machdep.h>
I ran into that too.
>instead of what I need and expect. I see three possibilities for
>this. One is to eliminate the -D${MACHINE} conditionally on the
>specific port/board defining something like NO_MACHINE_CPPFLAG,
>which seems to work OK. Another is to make it -D${MACHINE}=${MACHINE}
>which also seems to work OK and might be less likely to have any
>side-effects. The last is to just get rid of the -D${MACHINE}
>altogether. I don't know if anyone's depending on it at the moment,
>but I suspect that someone is.
>
>Anyone have any thoughts on the above?
Either change CPPFLAGS as above or nuke it.
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