From f425a6dce50475f08547d08763f707589478b027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:19:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Hack to make compiles for the other endianness easier.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
---
 arch/mips/Makefile | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 56e1d42a5796..056aae597123 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -97,6 +97,15 @@ cflags-y			+= $(call cc-option, -finline-limit=100000)
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux			+= -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib
 MODFLAGS			+= -mlong-calls
 
+#
+# We explicitly add the endianness specifier if needed, this allows
+# to compile kernels with a toolchain for the other endianness. We
+# carefully avoid to add it redundantly because gcc 3.3/3.4 complains
+# when fed the toolchain default!
+#
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips*el-linux*' && echo -EB)
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips*el-linux*' || echo -EL)
+
 cflags-$(CONFIG_SB1XXX_CORELIS)	+= -mno-sched-prolog -fno-omit-frame-pointer
 
 #
-- 
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