[meta-intel] [PATCH 1/8] common/binutils-2.24.51.0.3: New recipe

[Cal Sullivan]

This one really scares me. Old version, removed CVE fixes, and might 
cause compatibility issues with other layers...

Saul?

Thanks,
Cal

On 02/13/2017 01:52 PM, Alejandro Hernandez wrote:
> This is severely hacked version of the fido binutils recipe, which is
> the latest binutils 2.24 recipe that we have to start with.
>
> Instead of using the standard gnu binutils, however, for kernel LTO,
> (which is the only reason we need this), we need to use the 'Linux
> binutils', which is a different tarball/branch.
>
> The problem is that there are various fixes needed for this version of
> binutils to work with gcc 6.2, and many of the patches in 2.24, such
> as the CVE patches, don't apply at build-time and so have been
> commented out.
>
> We should really be using the normal standard 2.7 binutils (using of
> course the linux binutils branch) but that currently produces internal
> errors during the kernel build.
>
> For now, this works, and allows us to produce a working LTO-enabled
> kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi<tom.zanussi at linux.intel.com>

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