[PATCH] ARM: compressed: discard ksym/kcrctab input section

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com (Gregory CLEMENT)]

Hi Ard,
 
 On jeu., oct. 12 2017, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 12 October 2017 at 10:45, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:24:57AM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>> Hi Ard,
>>>
>>> Can we move forward to fix the booting problem ?
>>>
>>> What about amending your commit log with this new information and then
>>> submit it to Russell patch system?
>>
>> Well, I think there's a choice that needs to be made between this
>> approach and Arnd's approach.
>>
>> I'm not all that thrilled with the need to add explicit alignment to
>> data that is inherently a byte stream, and that invariably results in
>> unaligned data words even if you do align the start of it.  That
>> sounds to me very much like a hack rather than a proper solution.
>> So, right now I'm leaning more towards Arnd's solution than Ard's
>> from what's been said in this thread.
>>
>
> I agree that the struct type unaligned accessors are the best choice
> for ARM in any case, given that it will also prevent hitting the
> alignment fixup handler in the kernel unnecessarily.
>
>> However, I don't recall Arnd's patch, it's probably buried deep in
>> my mailbox.
>>
>
> Well, unless you are considering changing the unaligned accessors from
> access_ok.h to le_struct.h as a bugfix, I think we need both patches.

We will soon reach v4.14-rc6 and the Armada XP and Armada 370 still not
boot. I also didn't see your patch in rmk patch system.

Waiting for you find a agreement an other option is to remove CONFIG_EFI
from multi_v7_defconfig as I don't really see any armv7 base board using
EFI.

Thanks,

Gregory

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