On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Supporting two different intermediate-artifact packaging schemes
> was only ever intended as a temporary transition.
>
> This has so far caused no problems for powerpc, after a small fix
> for how the arch invoked ar. So now allow any arch to select the
> option, continue defaulting to N.
>
> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> The next step will be to have archs always select THIN_ARCHIVES
> when they are known to work. Then remove the option entirely.
>
> x86 has always just worked for me, so that should be easy.
I have build-tested many thousand randconfig kernels on arm32 with
this option enabled, and did not run into build-time regressions
besides some initial problems from a broken binutils snapshot
(all released binutils versions should be fine).
Arnd
