Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] x86/build: Get rid of vmlinux postlink step

Petr Pavlu
2025-03-11T16:00:56Z

On 3/11/25 07:40, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 03:39, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>> I am a bit concerned about having more and more
>> intermediate vmlinux.* files, but maybe only me.
>> I hope vmlinux.unstripped is the only/last one.
>>
>
> Maybe we should not strip vmlinux at all, but only remove any static
> relocations when packaging? E.g., tar-pkg, etc

Distributions typically have their own package recipes. The idea of
stripping these relocations from vmlinux in one place was that everyone
would trivially benefit from it. I'm not sure what you have exactly in
mind implementation-wise here, but I think this would be useful to keep.

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Thanks,
Petr