Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:37:59 +0100 | From | Alexander Graf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: Enable CONFIG_COMPAT also for 64k page size |
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On 04.12.14 19:20, Will Deacon wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:46:33PM +0000, 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. > > Is there a distro available that is built with a recent enough binutils for > this? I'd really like to run our regression tests to check that page-size > assumptions don't exist for things like shm.
I don't have a full distribution for you yet, but we'll start to switch to the 2.25 branch soon.
Michael, what are you plans on when a first armv7 Factory build based on 2.25 would be available?
Alex
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