[meta-ti] [PATCH] linux-ti33x-psp 3.2: avoid gold linker for Thumb2 kernel

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Thu May 10 23:46:24 PDT 2012


Op 11 mei 2012, om 04:41 heeft Denys Dmytriyenko het volgende geschreven:

> From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> 
> BeagleBone kernel is required to be built in Thumb2 mode for fast boot.
> Gold linker is not yet perfect for this, giving an internal error:
> 
> | arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: internal error in thumb_branch_common, at .../binutils-cross-2.22-r6/binutils-2.22/gold/arm.cc:4149
> 
> While this fix can be put in generic linux.inc for all the kernels, it's
> better to test the Gold linker out as much as possible and only disable it
> for known issues, like this one (until it gets fixed, of course).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>

Looks good to me.


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