On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Daniel Walker <danie...@cisco.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > It looks like -mcpu=common (on the powerpc architecture) was removed. My > group is struggling to find a way to compile generic binaries for PowerPC. > We have been getting an LWSYNC instruction included in the binaries, and > some of our processors are getting a trap when this instructions is > executed. The platforms we are using are all Freescale, they are p2020, > t1042, and 8540. > > Freescale support informed us that we should use -mcpu=common , which is > gone, we tried a number of other -mcpu setting including -mcpu=powerpc, but > none of them allow us to have generic binaries for all the platforms. > > I suppose this is either a bug report that we're getting lwsync when we > shouldn't be getting it, or just a question of what the typical tune is to > make generic binaries ?
I think that you misunderstand what "common" meant. Common was a subset of the original IBM POWER Architecture (not POWER processor) and the PowerPC architecture. An option that targets all Freescale processors is up to Freescale. Thanks, David
