Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 0/8] Add support for FDPIC binaries on ARM

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Ben,

On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:17:25 -0400
Ben Wolsieffer <ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com> wrote:

> Ben Wolsieffer (8):
>   Revert "arch: drop now useless support for FDPIC"
>   arch: don't enable FDPIC binaries by default
>   arch: make FDPIC dependent on toolchain support
>   arch/arm: add support for FDPIC
>   boot/uboot: pass -mno-fdpic if FDPIC is enabled
>   linux: pass -mno-fdpic if FDPIC is enabled
>   package/uclibc: enable NPTL on no-MMU ARM w/ FDPIC
>   package/pkg-autotools: patch libtool to support ARM FDPIC

Thanks for submitting this, and as Yann said already many months ago,
sorry for the delay.

To be honest, we're not entirely sure we want to merge this without a
really active user of it. The changes are not too complicated, but it's
another fairly special use-case to support, and we would really like to
have someone using it "for real" before we merge this.

Also, Waldemar pointed out a number of small issues he encountered
while testing this. There's not been activity on this topic for a year,
so we're not sure how committed you are to pushing this and more
importantly maintaining this.

Could you provide more details on whether you're actually using this in
a project/product? Or is anyone else using this, or going to use it?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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