From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:03:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: errata: Check for --fix-cortex-a53-843419 and --fix-cortex-a53 In-Reply-To: <20161031194414.61287-1-code@mmayer.net> References: <20161031194414.61287-1-code@mmayer.net> Message-ID: <20161102210331.GJ22791@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote: > From: Markus Mayer > > 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 If newer versions of gold accept the correct option name, why do we care? Will