From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove meaningless KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 02:29:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190715072959.GB20882@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9w393r5.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 05:05:34PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> > Yes, that is why I used the environment variable, all binutils work
> > with that. There was no --target option in GNU ar before 2.22.
>
> Yeah, we're not very good at testing with really old binutils, so I
> guess we broke that.
>
> I'm inclined to merge this, it doesn't seem to break anything, and it
> fixes using --target on old binutils that don't have it.
But we don't set the target any other way either. I don't think this
will work with a 32-bit toolchain (default target 32 bit) and a 64-bit
kernel, or the other way around.
Then again, does that work at *all* nowadays? Do we even consider that
important, *should* it work?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-15 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-13 3:21 [PATCH] powerpc: remove meaningless KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-13 12:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-13 13:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-13 22:45 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-13 23:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-15 7:05 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-15 7:29 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-07-15 12:03 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-15 18:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-16 7:14 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-16 12:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-17 14:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-17 15:19 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-17 16:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-18 2:19 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-18 20:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-19 3:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-19 4:25 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-28 4:24 ` Michael Ellerman
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