Re: Linux Plumbers Conf 2021

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

Hi Nick,

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 01:37:22PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:35 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 4:01 PM Nick Desaulniers
> > <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 5:14 AM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > If it's not too late, I'd definitely be interested in a discussion around
> > > > objtool support for arm64. Specifically, I would very much like us _not_
> > > > to have a hard dependency on objtool and instead treat it as a binary
> > > > linter of sorts. However, this likely requires help from the toolchain
> > > > where some of the jobs which are performed by objtool on x86 today now
> > > > need to be done by the compiler/linker for arm64.
> > > >
> > > > I don't have a good handle on exactly what is needed and whether there's
> > > > any appetite from the toolchain developers to implement this, so it would
> > > > be very helpful to kick that discussion off.
> >
> > Hi Will, Josh, Julien, and Bill,
> > Our MC has been formally accepted:
> > https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/blog/2021/index.php/2021/06/21/toolchains-and-kernel-microconference-accepted-into-2021-linux-plumbers-conference/
> >
> > Would you mind please submitting a formal talk proposal at:
> > https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/abstracts/
> >
> > In the bottom right, click "Submit new proposal" then make sure to
> > select "Toolchains and Kernel" under the Track dropdown.
> >
> > The Content field will be what's shown to attendees.  We'd like to
> > close our CFP by August 14th, 2021.

I just submitted something for "objtool on arm64".

Will