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On 01/22/2013 02:12 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> I assumed that would be the target eventually - is that not the case?
> 
> yes when we have tested it
> However, I don’t see any other better way of coping with the case where we
> would like to use gold as default linker distrowide. One could cook up
> a patch for kernel
> to demand ld.bfd always like I did for uboot but we have way too many kernels
> to patch. I am open for other suggestions.
> 

I don't object to the approach, I was just wanting to boost my
confidence level with testing results. Sounds like that's coming, and I
should probably do some runs myself.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel