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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] kvm-unit-test: revert use of RDSEED and RDRAND
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:49:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171218084954.54776e85@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANQCQpaDCyJLRZRk5mwun3sGy1Ex7WVZO5E35YZM02m-Synv-g@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:41:05 -0600, Matthew Weber wrote:

> It isn't really a bug upstream.  I think the long term fix would be a
> check for a minimum binutils version.

Or kvm-unit-tests could do a configure test to verify if
rdseed/rdrand are supported, and only use them if so.

> Can you think of another case I could use as an example where a
> evolution in the binutils has required a minimum version?

I don't think we had such a case so far. We do have
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BINUTILS_HAS_BUG_xyz, but I don't think we have had
version dependencies for binutils.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-18  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-07  4:36 [Buildroot] [PATCH] kvm-unit-test: revert use of RDSEED and RDRAND Matt Weber
2017-12-14  8:44 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-12-15 20:41   ` Matthew Weber
2017-12-15 20:41     ` [Buildroot] FW: " Kees van Unen
2017-12-18  7:49     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-01-03 22:27       ` [Buildroot] " Thomas Petazzoni
2018-01-03 22:42         ` Matthew Weber
2018-01-04  8:36           ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-01-09 16:09             ` Matthew Weber

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