[U-Boot] [PATCH] Default to HOSTARCH if ARCH isn't specified

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Apr 20 22:36:00 CEST 2009


Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <1240247017-1069-1-git-send-email-galak at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> Its possible to build natively on several platforms so we might not
> explicitly set ARCH but detect it via HOSTARCH.  As such there are
> some things that expect ARCH to be set to work correctly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>  Makefile |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index e91c051..c56d6db 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),powerpc)
>  ARCH = ppc
>  endif
>  
> +ifndef ARCH
> +ARCH = $(HOSTARCH)
> +endif
> +

In current mainline U-Boot, such a patch is not needed (which is just a
friendly version of saying it does not make sense :-), because ARCH
gets loaded from include/config.mk after running "make <board>_config".

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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