Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:18:27 -0800 | From | Laura Abbott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: Enable CONFIG_COMPAT also for 64k page size |
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On 12/4/2014 7:46 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > With binutils 2.25 the default alignment for 32bit arm sections changed to > have everything 64k aligned. Armv7 binaries built with this binutils version > run successfully on an arm64 system. > > Since effectively there is now the chance to run armv7 code on arm64 even > with 64k page size, it doesn't make sense to block people from enabling > CONFIG_COMPAT on those configurations. >
It's good to see this restriction dropped. Can we put a note somewhere in the actual Kconfig about the binutils requirement so the requirements are more obvious?
Thanks, Laura
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