On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 08:51:43PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Greg and Sasha,
>
> Please apply the following mbox files to their respective trees. They
> contain upstream patches that allow a tip of tree LLD to link an x86
> kernel image as well as a patch to avoid using $(LD) to check for
> the location of binutils, which won't always be accurate when linking
> with LLD. This was tested with both the upstream defconfig and Android's
> x86_64_cuttlefish_defconfig in their respective trees (building/linking
> with both Clang/LLD and GCC/ld.bfd then booting in QEMU).
>
> For 5.0, a simple cherry-pick of commit ad15006cc784 ("kbuild: clang:
> choose GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR not on LD") will do.
>
> Greg, the merge into kernel/common will result in two conflicts:
>
> * Makefile:
> Make the diff match upstream commit
> ad15006cc784 ("kbuild: clang: choose GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR not on LD")
Ugh, I just did every single android-common kernel merge today the wrong
way for this, so sorry about that. You told me the right way to do it,
and I read it backwards, my fault :(
thanks for the merge information, maybe next time I will be smart enough
to actually follow it correctly...
greg k-h
