Hi Arnd, On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 09:52:23 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Using a different way to link the kernel would also help us with > the remaining allyesconfig problem on ARM, as the problem is only in > 'ld -r' not producing trampolines for symbols that later cannot get > them any more. It would probably also help building with ld.gold, > which is currently not working. > > What is your suggested alternative? I have a patch that make the built-in.o files into thin archives (same as archives, but the actual objects are replaced with the name of the original object file). That way the final link has all the original objects. I haven't checked to see what the overheads of doing it this way is. Nick Piggin has just today taken my old patch (it was last rebased to v4.4-rc1) and tried it on a recent kernel and it still seems to mostly work. It probably needs some tidying up, but you are welcome to test it if you want to. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
