[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] [arm64 uboot] Resolved compilation issue for arm64 uboot

Matthew Weber matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Mon Oct 12 18:51:50 UTC 2015


Thomas,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Matt Weber,
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:49:14 -0500, Matt Weber wrote:
>
>> This patch has been added to resolve the compilation issue
>> of arm64 uboot.
>>
>> For aarch64 architecture, kernel uses arm64 terminology and thus from
>> top-level Makefile KERNEL_ARCH is modified to arm64 for aarch64 which
>> then passed to uboot compilation. But, it causes compilation issue
>> while including architecture specific Makefile under
>> arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile as uboot uses top-level system architecture as
>> arm only.
>
> I'm not a native english speaker, but the wording of this sentence
> doesn't seem quite right.
>
> The title of the commit should be:
>
>         uboot: <something>
>
>> +# For aarch64 architecture, kernel uses arm64 terminology and thus from
>> +# # top-level Makefile KERNEL_ARCH is modified to arm64 for aarch64 which
>> +# # then passed to uboot compilation. But, it causes compilation issue
>> +# # while including architecture specific Makefile under arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
>> +# # as uboot uses top-level system architecture as arm only.
>
> Double hashes a the beginning of each line -> not good.
>
> Care to fix that up (especially rewording the commit log and comment) ?
>

Yeah, not a problem.  I should have a new revision out soon.

> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com



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