Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:03:32 +0000 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: errata: Check for --fix-cortex-a53-843419 and --fix-cortex-a53 |
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:44:14PM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote: > From: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com> > > The new errata check leads to a warning with some older versions of the > linker that do know how to work around the errata, but still use the > original name of the command line option: --fix-cortex-a53. The commit > in question that changed the name of the option can be found at [1]. > It looks like only "gold" is affected by this rename. Traditional "ld" > isn't. (There, the argument was always called --fix-cortex-a53-843419.) > > To allow older versions of gold to properly handle the erratum if they > can, check whether ld supports the old name of this option in addition > to checking the new one. > > [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a2a1c793578a8468604e661dda025ecb8d0bd20;hp=cfbf0e3c5b637d66b2b1aeadecae9c187b825b2f > > Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
If newer versions of gold accept the correct option name, why do we care?
Will
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