From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: errata: Check for --fix-cortex-a53-843419 and --fix-cortex-a53
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:03:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161102210331.GJ22791@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031194414.61287-1-code@mmayer.net>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote:
> From: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
>
> The new errata check leads to a warning with some older versions of the
> linker that do know how to work around the errata, but still use the
> original name of the command line option: --fix-cortex-a53. The commit
> in question that changed the name of the option can be found at [1].
> It looks like only "gold" is affected by this rename. Traditional "ld"
> isn't. (There, the argument was always called --fix-cortex-a53-843419.)
>
> To allow older versions of gold to properly handle the erratum if they
> can, check whether ld supports the old name of this option in addition
> to checking the new one.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a2a1c793578a8468604e661dda025ecb8d0bd20;hp=cfbf0e3c5b637d66b2b1aeadecae9c187b825b2f
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
If newer versions of gold accept the correct option name, why do we care?
Will
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Markus Mayer <code@mmayer.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
ARM Kernel Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: errata: Check for --fix-cortex-a53-843419 and --fix-cortex-a53
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:03:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161102210331.GJ22791@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031194414.61287-1-code@mmayer.net>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote:
> From: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
>
> The new errata check leads to a warning with some older versions of the
> linker that do know how to work around the errata, but still use the
> original name of the command line option: --fix-cortex-a53. The commit
> in question that changed the name of the option can be found at [1].
> It looks like only "gold" is affected by this rename. Traditional "ld"
> isn't. (There, the argument was always called --fix-cortex-a53-843419.)
>
> To allow older versions of gold to properly handle the erratum if they
> can, check whether ld supports the old name of this option in addition
> to checking the new one.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a2a1c793578a8468604e661dda025ecb8d0bd20;hp=cfbf0e3c5b637d66b2b1aeadecae9c187b825b2f
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
If newer versions of gold accept the correct option name, why do we care?
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-02 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-31 19:44 [PATCH] arm64: errata: Check for --fix-cortex-a53-843419 and --fix-cortex-a53 Markus Mayer
2016-10-31 19:44 ` Markus Mayer
2016-11-02 21:03 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-11-02 21:03 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-02 21:07 ` Markus Mayer
2016-11-02 21:07 ` Markus Mayer
2016-11-02 21:27 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-02 21:27 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-02 21:41 ` Markus Mayer
2016-11-02 21:41 ` Markus Mayer
2016-11-02 21:57 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-11-02 21:57 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-11-03 14:16 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-03 14:16 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-03 17:20 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-11-03 17:20 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-12-28 20:17 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-12-28 20:17 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-04 11:49 ` Will Deacon
2017-01-04 11:49 ` Will Deacon
2017-01-04 22:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-04 22:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-04 23:04 ` Markus Mayer
2017-01-04 23:04 ` Markus Mayer
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