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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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2016-02-12 12:05, Fernando Seiti Furusato:
> Add a proper ifeq statement to set the mcpu as needed for ppc64el, as
> the only one originally set is not valid for ppc architectures.

What is the benefit of using the default machine config, compared to
the power8 one?

Don't you think the default machine should be renamed core2?

[...]
> +ifeq (ppc64le,$(shell uname -m))
> +        MACHINE_CFLAGS += -mcpu=power8

Why this flag is not set in mk/machine/power8/rte.vars.mk ?