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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/18] arm64: explicitly pass
 --no-fix-cortex-a53-843419 to GNU gold
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:34:19PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Some versions of GNU gold are known to produce broken code with
> --fix-cortex-a53-843419 as explained in this bug:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21491
> 
> If ARM64_ERRATUM_843419 is disabled and we're using GNU gold, pass
> --no-fix-cortex-a53-843419 to the linker to ensure the erratum fix is not
> used even if the linker is configured to enable it by default.

But if ARM64_ERRATUM_843419 is enabled, we'll go ahead and generate broken
code?

Will