From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:08:58 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1] binutils-2.27: backport patch to enable CRC instructions on supported ARMv8-A CPUs In-Reply-To: <20170716233123.5652e111@gmx.net> References: <20170715231146.25019-1-ps.report@gmx.net> <20170716092018.546fa061@windsurf> <20170716233123.5652e111@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20170717090858.26da5867@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:31:23 +0200, Peter Seiderer wrote: > > Thanks for this patch. You're adding it to binutils 2.27, what about > > binutils 2.26.1 ? The bug doesn't exist ? > > Bug exists with binutils 2.26.1 but the simple approach to backport (only) > the same patch did not work: > > ./../include/opcode/arm.h:253:53: error: ?ARM_AEXT2_V8A? undeclared here (not in a function) > > Seems more patches are missing... Argh, ok. I honestly don't think it's really worth the effort trying to fix this specific problem on the older binutils 2.26, so let's leave things as-is, the problem will disappear by itself once we bump to binutils 2.29, and remove binutils 2.26. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com