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From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>,
	WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>,
	loongarch@lists.linux.dev, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] LoongArch: Support toolchain with new relocation types
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:01:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a3e185eaaac4a1397abe43026004548d47ee305.camel@xry111.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAhV-H7LjkY+XAzGs2K3544+CGOztCd4V8BuSjMJwZCgfBLDow@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 12:43 +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > Note that -fpic/-fPIC is "position-independent code *suitable for
> > use in a shared library*", while -fpie/-fPIE is more like just
> > "position-independent code".  The names of those options are confusing.
> > (When -fpic was invented first time, people mostly believed "PIC had
> > been only for shared libraries", so it's named -fpic instead of -shlib
> > or something.)  IMO in the EFI stub for other ports, -fpie should be
> > used instead of -fpic as well because the EFI stub is not similar to a
> > shared library in any means.

> You are right, but I guess that Ard doesn't want to squash the efistub
> change into the LoongArch efistub support patch. :)

It only changes cflags-$(CONFIG_LOONGARCH), which is LoongArch specific.
And arm64 is also using -fpie.

Should I send the one-line EFI stub change to linux-efi first?

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-06  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-30 10:48 [PATCH v7 0/5] LoongArch: Support toolchain with new relocation types Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH v7 1/5] LoongArch: Add CONFIG_AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] LoongArch: Adjust symbol addressing for CONFIG_AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] LoongArch: Define ELF relocation types added in v2.00 ABI Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] LoongArch: Support PC-relative relocations in modules Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 12:59   ` kernel test robot
2022-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] LoongArch: Support R_LARCH_GOT_PC* " Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 13:05 ` [PATCH v7 0/5] LoongArch: Support toolchain with new relocation types Huacai Chen
2022-08-30 14:48   ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 16:37   ` WANG Xuerui
2022-08-31  5:44     ` Huacai Chen
2022-08-31  6:10       ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-31  6:58         ` Jinyang He
2022-08-31  8:08           ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-31 14:40             ` Huacai Chen
2022-08-31 15:14               ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-01  2:17                 ` Huacai Chen
2022-09-01  2:26                   ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-06  0:32                   ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-06  1:52                     ` Huacai Chen
2022-09-06  4:26                       ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-06  4:43                         ` Huacai Chen
2022-09-06  5:01                           ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2022-09-06  5:57                             ` Huacai Chen
2022-09-06  7:18                           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-09-06  8:20                             ` Huacai Chen
2022-09-06  8:59                               ` Huacai Chen
2022-09-06 10:16                                 ` Ard Biesheuvel

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