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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Use aarch64elf and aarch64elfb emulation mode variants"
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Olof,
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 07:59:10AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:36:16AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:30:39AM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 10:01 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> > > > Thanks, Laura.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'll take this as a fix, and add a comment to the Makefile to justify
>> > > > why we need the linux target.
>> > >
>> > > So this comes down to either breaking fedora/debian toolchains (that
>> > > don't support elf emulation mode) or breaking bare-metal toolchains
>> > > (that don't support linux emulation mode).
>> > >
>> > > Since Linux is a bare-metal project that does not technically require
>> > > the linux target (who said using "Linux" for all things is confusing?),
>> > > I think it should aim for the elf target in the long term.
>> > >
>> > > But well, breaking Linux build in common distros isn't good either, so I
>> > > guess it makes sense to revert this while distros toolchains are being
>> > > fixed. Hopefully, it won't take too long.
>> > >
>> > > What do you think?
>> >
>> > Yes, we need to revert the change since it's a regression otherwise. I think
>> > the best course of action here would be to find a way that we can either
>> > tell the linker that it doesn't need the missing linker scripts because
>> > we're providing our own, or find a way to pass different LD flags depending
>> > on whether or not we have a linux toolchain.
>> >
>> > For now, I've pushed the revert to for-next/fixes.
>>
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> This is regressed in mainline as well. But I think we can just use a (slightly
>> improved) ld-option here? I checked it for x86 regression since it uses the
>> one-argument version. Patch is here, can you pick that up instead and get it in
>> for 4.18-rc?
>
> I already sent the revert to Linus, but I can certainly queue the ld-option
> for 4.19 if we pick up some more tested-bys. Could you send it out as its
> own patch please?

Definitely, separate email shortly.


-Olof
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