kernel/linux.git/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper, branch v6.19.11

powerpc/boot: Add missing compression methods to usage

2025-11-11T08:55:57+00:00

lzma and lzo are also supported. Signed-off-by: Antonio Alvarez Feijoo Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916061840.5492-1-antonio.feijoo@suse.com

arch/powerpc: Remove support for older GCC and binutils

2025-09-06T10:20:42+00:00

Commit 118c40b7b503 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30") raised minimum GCC_VERSION and LD_VERSION. Simplify powerpc build accordingly. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b6b94cba7492c8581e8d5d25b15962e5ad7a37c2.1751366979.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

powerpc/boot: Fix dash warning

2025-04-24T06:55:39+00:00

'commit b2accfe7ca5b ("powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support")' suppressed linker warnings, but the expressed used did not go well with POSIX shell (dash) resulting with this warning arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: 237: [: 0: unexpected operator ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions Fix the check to handle the reported warning. Patch also fixes couple of shellcheck reported errors for the same line. In arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper line 237: if [ $(${CROSS}ld -v --no-warn-rwx-segments &>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 0 ]; then ^-- SC2046 (warning): Quote this to prevent word splitting. ^------^ SC2086 (info): Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting. ^---------^ SC3020 (warning): In POSIX sh, &> is undefined. Fixes: b2accfe7ca5b ("powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Suggested-by: Stephen Rothwell Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250423082154.30625-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com

powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support

2025-04-16T11:38:08+00:00

Commit 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") enabled support to add linker option "--no-warn-rwx-segments", if the version is greater than 2.39. Similar build warning were reported recently from linker version 2.35.2. ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions Fix the warning by checking for "--no-warn-rwx-segments" option support in linker to enable it, instead of checking for the version range. Fixes: 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/61cf556c-4947-4bd6-af63-892fc0966dad@linux.ibm.com/ Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250401004218.24869-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com

powerpc/64: Remove maple platform

2024-10-29T12:01:52+00:00

The maple platform was added in 2004 [1], to support the "Maple" 970FX evaluation board. It was later used for IBM JS20/JS21 machines, as well as the Bimini machine, aka "Yellow Dog Powerstation". Sadly all those machines have passed into memory, and there's been no evidence for years that anyone is still using any of them. Remove the platform and related code. It can always be reinstated if there's interest. Note that this has no impact on support for 970FX based Power Macs. [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux-fullhistory.git/commit/?id=f0d068d65c5e555ffcfbc189de32598f6f00770c Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241013102957.548291-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc: Remove 40x leftovers

2024-07-12T01:43:41+00:00

Remove stale references to 40x. Fixes: e939da89d024 ("powerpc: Remove 40x from Kconfig and defconfig") Fixes: 548f5244f106 ("powerpc/40x: Remove EP405") Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/ab30ae302783d8617d407864b92db1b926ab5ab9.1720694914.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

powerpc/boot: Remove all 40x platforms from boot

2024-06-28T12:28:47+00:00

Remove 40x platforms from the boot directory. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20240628121201.130802-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc/boot: Fix incorrect version calculation issue in ld_version

2023-01-11T05:28:43+00:00

The ld_version() function computes the wrong version value for certain ld versions such as the following: $ ld --version GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.37.20211103-150100.7.37 For input 2.37.20211103, the value computed is 202348030000 which is higher than the value for a later version like 2.39.0, which is 23900000. This issue was highlighted because with the above ld version, the powerpc kernel build started failing with ld error: "unrecognized option --no-warn-rwx-segments". This was caused due to the recent commit 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") which added the --no-warn-rwx-segments linker flag if the ld version is greater than 2.39. Due to the bug in ld_version(), ld version 2.37.20111103 is wrongly calculated to be greater than 2.39 and the unsupported flag is added. To fix it, if version is of the form x.y.z and length(z) == 8, then most probably it is a date [yyyymmdd] commonly used for release snapshots and not an actual new version. Hence, ignore the date part replacing it with 0. Fixes: 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo [mpe: Tweak change log wording/formatting, add Fixes tag] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104202437.90039-1-ojaswin@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: Use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"

2022-11-24T12:31:51+00:00

The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build now contains warnings that look like: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E fix this up by moving the related file to use "grep -E" instead. sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl arch/powerpc` Here are the steps to install the latest grep: wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make sudo make install export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668764429-11540-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn

powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions

2022-11-24T12:31:49+00:00

This is a follow on from commit 0d362be5b142 ("Makefile: link with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments") for arch/powerpc/boot to address wanrings like: ld: warning: opal-calls.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions This fixes issue https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/417 Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221010165721.106267e6@canb.auug.org.au