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List:       linux-arch
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide THIN_ARCHIVES option for all architectures
From:       Arnd Bergmann <arnd () arndb ! de>
Date:       2017-05-31 21:13:01
Message-ID: CAK8P3a2umsN_fTLbRmMofFYBzfOSdfFTqYcKdtesAdXk9Dbwvg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> 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@canb.auug.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> ---
> 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
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