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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] efi/libstub/arm64: link stub lib.a conditionally
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:42:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610084206.GA17035@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXES7MoxWDQeO=D-88fit4H_Qh9SEQmikcJA39d8czPCBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:00:19AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 09:58, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 11:20:30AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > Since commit 799c43415442 ("kbuild: thin archives make default for
> > > all archs"), core-y is passed to the linker with --whole-archive.
> > > Hence, the whole of stub library is linked to vmlinux.
> > >
> > > Use libs-y so that lib.a is passed after --no-whole-archive for
> > > conditional linking.
> > >
> > > The unused drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.o will be dropped
> > > for ARCH=arm64.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > This patch touches under arch/arm64/, but
> > > this is more related to efi.
> > > I am sending this to Ard.
> >
> > Ok, I'll ignore this then. Ard -- please yell if you want me to do anything
> > else with it.
> >
> 
> I am going to send a batch of EFI fixes early next week, so I can take
> this as well, or alternatively, you can apply it directly.

No, please take it. Just wanted to make sure it didn't slip through the
cracks, that's all.

Will

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-10  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-04  2:20 [PATCH v2 1/2] efi/libstub/arm64: link stub lib.a conditionally Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-10  7:58 ` Will Deacon
2020-06-10  8:00   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-06-10  8:42     ` Will Deacon [this message]

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